"If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it."

--

Source : "Amory Lovins: Energy Analyst and Environmentalist". The Plowboy Interview, www.motherearthnews.com. November/December 1977.

Amory Lovins

#Energy Quotes #Littles Quotes #Environment Quotes

“Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.”
“I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I believe in my tribe. I believe in the righteous, intelligent clued-up section of the working classes against the brain-dead moronic masses as well as the mediocre, soulless bourgeoisie.”

Source : Irvine Welsh (2009). “T2 Trainspotting”, p.483, Random House
“I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream.”
“It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.”
“In developing our industrial strategy for the period ahead, we have the benefit of much experience. Almost everything has been tried at least once”
“As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.”
“Go where your best prayers take you.”
“I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.”

You may also like:

Bill McKibben
Environmentalist
David Holmgren
Writer
Hunter Lovins
Author
James Hansen
Professor
James Lovelock
Scientist
Janine Benyus
Science writer
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist
R. James Woolsey, Jr.
Lawyer
William McDonough
Designer