"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death."

-- Rachel Carson

#World Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Environment Quotes

“The banding together by the nations of the world against Israel is the guarantee that their time of destruction is near and the final redemption of the Jew at hand.”

Source : Meir Kahane (1995). “Listen world, listen Jew”, Publication of Writings of Rabbi Meir Kahane
“I am interested only in "nonsense"; only in that which makes no practical sense. I am interested in life only in its absurd manifestations.”

Source : Daniil Kharms, Neil Cornwell (1993). “Incidences”, Serpents Tail
“Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life on a scale that has not occurred for tens of millions of years. So we confront an urgent choice: to move beyond fossil fuels or to risk turning the ocean into a sea of weeds.”
“I've got over so much. Mum wouldn't want anything to come into my life that would make me fragile again”
“Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!”
“Cyprus was a breath away from economic collapse. It was a big battle in which we came out wounded, but upright and determined to make a fresh start.”
“But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.”
“As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.”

Source : "Robert Plant: Born In England; Made In America". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 20, 2010.

You may also like:

Ada Lovelace
Countess of Lovelace
Aldo Leopold
Author
David R. Brower
Environmentalist
Garrett Hardin
Ecologist
Jane Goodall
Primatologist
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
John Muir
Author
Marie Curie
Physicist
Rosalind Franklin
Scientist