"What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves."

-- Bill McKibben

#Talking Quotes #Long Quotes #Comfort Quotes

“My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.”

Source : "The Language of God". Book by Francis Collins, p. 60, 2006.
“The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.”
“This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.”
“Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it.”
“The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.”
“This awareness instills a fierce desire to protect that heritage and - in doing so - to educate Americans in the meaning and importance of our pivotal documents.”
“Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations.”

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