"But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship."

-- Wangari Maathai

#Issues Quotes #Erosion Quotes #Logging Quotes

“A crucial question is how to balance surveillance with privacy and keeping Americans safe.”

Source : Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
“The popular eye is not untrained; it is only wrongly trained - trained by inferior and insincere visual representations.”
“When Reality is a prison, Your mind can set you free.”
“The free economy is not the enemy but the friend of social capital.”
“Instead of giving it [war] a rest I continued pursuing more research, talking to more people on the subject as if I was to please this aftermath of the book by knowledge that was more historical and psychological than literary and aesthetical.”
“Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!”
“When I write a book I'm always questioning the project as a whole. I always feel I might have to just throw it away and forget about it, and I've done that with novels I've started and worked on for a long time. It's an option I need in order to write freely.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.”

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