"Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic."

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Source : Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence (2007). “Babylon's Ark: The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo”, p.240, Macmillan

Lawrence Anthony

#Fighting Quotes #Oil Quotes #Earth Quotes

“All of us can work for peace. We can work right where we are, right within ourselves, because the more peace we have within our own lives, the more we can reflect into the outer situation.”
“My only fear is the unknown.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.”

Source : James Cash Penney (1960). “View from the Ninth Decade: Jottings from a Merchant's Daybook”
“The Supreme Court dealt a huge blow, overturning a 100-year-old precedent that basically corporations couldnâ€™t give directly to political campaigns. And everyone is up in arms because they donâ€™t like it. The Federal Election Commission canâ€™t do anything about it.”

Source : House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing, www.washingtonpost.com. March 6, 2014.
“Art is the path of the creator to his work.”
“I began working with a family camera. It was called a Kodak Autographic, which was one of those things where you flopped it open and pulled out the bellows. And I've been at it ever since - I've never stopped”
“My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Writing about a war will always be political writing, no matter what amount of hermetical hide-and-seek or aesthetical operations are involved.”

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