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“Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.”
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“Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated.”
Source : Catharine A. MacKinnon (1987). “Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law”, p.82, Harvard University Press
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“I am a woodlander, I have sap in my veins.”
Source : Roger Deakin (2009). “Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.”
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“They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.”
Source : Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. March 24, 2006.
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“One thing that's really interesting is not only the magnitude of the recent immigration into this country, but also its distribution and its investment in the country. About 9.3 percent of the population is now foreign-born [announced by the Census Bureau at over 10 percent a few days later]. What's really surprising is how well distributed those population groups are. Historically, we see new immigrants primarily on the coast and in a few big cities. I think the data are going to show a much wider distribution of the new population groups than we've experienced historically.”
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“Good is not good, where better is expected”
Source : Thomas Fuller (1891). “The Collected Sermons of Thomas Fuller”
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“Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.”