Quotes
Authors
William Cronon

"At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads."

-- William Cronon

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“Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.”

Source : Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”
“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”
“Freedom of expression comes with responsibilities, especially when it comes with serious implications for peace.”
“Don't write naughty words on the wall if you can't spell!”
“I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.”
“The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic phenomena. The verbal interpretation, on the other hand - i.e., the metaphysics of quantum theory - is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.”
“Things aren't ever what they seem to be when you first look at them. What's important is that you keep your mind wide open and try to understand what's going on from a lot of different angles.”

Source : Christopher Paul Curtis (2009). “Bucking the Sarge”, p.91, Laurel Leaf
“I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.”

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