"There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer."

-- Denis Hayes

#Years Quotes #Volunteer Quotes #Office Quotes

“It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?”
“Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?”

Source : "Colten v. Kentucky, 407 U.S. 104". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. June 12, 1972.
“The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.”
“It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.”
“Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.”
“When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.”

Source : Song: Shine
“I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.”
“I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.”

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