"If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods."

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Source : "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

Barry Commoner

#Agriculture Quotes #Energy Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.”

Source : "Matthea Harvey, author of 'Modern Life'". Interview with Wendy Vardaman, www.versewisconsin.org.
“Money is a living thing.”
“When one forgets the distinction between method and truth, one becomes foolishly prone to respond to any question that cannot be answered from the vantage of one's particular methodological perch by dismissing it as nonsensical, or by issuing a promissory note guaranteeing a solution to the problem at some juncture in the remote future, or by simply distorting the question into one that looks like the kind one really can answer after all.”
“In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.”
“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy. Because I am so big, they were going to give me either a heavy radio or a huge machine gun to carry. I carried a radio.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming â€” what should I do? â€” with an answer taking shape: nothing.”

Source : Georges Perec (1987). “Life, a user's manual: fictions”, Collins Harvill Press
“Holding anxiety as your own enemy, and that it has to go down, diminish it, go away and not happen here is a kind of self-invalidating, interiorly focused process that would get you even more entangled with these processes. Instead, what we're going to need to learn to do is to allow your history to bring into the present thoughts and feelings and memories, and to sort of hold them mindfully and self-compassionately, and then focus on what you do and bring them along for that journey.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.”

Source : Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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