"I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will break and then you will get a complete and massive change in the climate in which the survival of human species might not be compatible."

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Source : "Michael Meacher MP: humans only have 200-300 years left on earth". Interview with Tom Levitt, www.theecologist.org. July 22, 2010.

Michael Meacher

#Thinking Quotes #Survival Quotes #Might Quotes

“You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.”
“I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.”
“Lean forward into your life... catch the best bits and the finest wind. Just tip your feathers in flight a wee bit and see how dramatically that small lean can change your life.”
“I've found in my own life that the older I get, the more stubborn I am in my beliefs and opinions. Without keeping my ego in check, it would be easy for me to bail on relationships when I didn't agree with someone. The antidote to this problem is humility, plain and simple. The more we claim an unassuming nature, the more we believe the best about people and situations, and the more we try and see others through the lens of love. We are then given the opportunity for our relationships to grow.”
“The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility.”

Source : Susan Orlean (2009). “The Orchid Thief”, p.133, Random House
“When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege.”
“Honest people, mistakenly believing in the justice of their cause, are led to support injustice.”

Source : Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”
“The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His.”

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