“Nature soothes us. Nature heals us, and something more, the woods are a place of power. Any woods that are still surviving on this planet, those are powerful areas to have kept themselves free from the encroachment of the industrial societies of our earth.” StillsEarthHumanityPowerfulPlanetsBuddhismAreasWoodsHealSurvivingEncroachment Author:Frederick Lenz
“Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.” HumansLongHas BeensCountryWholeSeemsRememberNationsCommunityPowerfulCitiesKnownLandAchievementAreasConnectionsSurprisingVery PowerfulHuman SocietySettlementRural AreasPowerful Words Book:The Country and the City Source: The Country and the City
“It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’” ShouldMadeStillsImportantCountryStatesFeelingsWaitingPowerfulNumbersEffortAreasCongressParksOppositionInsidiousNational ParksScenicWild Places Author:Enos Mills
“The modern reader (or viewer, or listener: let's include everybody) is perilously overloaded. His attention is, to use the latest lingo,'targeted' by powerful forces? Our consciousness is a staging area, a field of operations for all kinds of enterprises, which make free use of it.” KindUseForcePowerfulAttentionConsciousnessModernFieldsReaderAreasAll KindsOperationsEnterpriseListenersViewersStagingOverloaded Author:Saul Bellow
“I'm very excited about this wonderful opportunity to take part in the evolution of a company that is integral to the Hispanic community and a powerful force in all areas of the media.” OpportunityForceCommunityPowerfulCompanyWonderfulMediaEvolutionAreasExcitedHispanic Author:Gloria Estefan
“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.” CountryAbleLastsFormPoliticalCertainForceProcessCommunityPowerfulFourSecurityCrimePositionGrewActivityAreasConcernDecadesCriminalsObjectivesOur CountryCrushProportionSuppressingSecurity ForcesSyndicate Author:Nelson Mandela
“Two of the most powerful of these power places are located in the Boston and Los Angeles areas. Highly evolved souls tend to be drawn to these areas because it's easier for them to increase their awareness there.” TwoSoulPowerfulAwarenessBuddhismEasierAreasIncreaseMost PowerfulLos AngelesBoston Author:Frederick Lenz
“One of the powerful things about the food issue is that people feel empowered by it. There are so many areas of our life where we feel powerless to change things, but your eating issues are really primal. You decide every day what you're going to put in your body and what you refuse to put in your body. That's politics at its most basic.” PeopleFeelsBodyPowerfulIssuesOur LivesEatingAreasRefuseYour BodyPowerlessEmpoweredPrimal Author:Michael Pollan
“I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are interested in alternative health who are never going to become doctors, or practitioners. That is how I am about politics. I am interested in the intersection of the Spiritual and the political - how spiritual principles apply to the social and political issues of our day. For me, the spiritual realm, is a more powerful place to speak from on those issues.” SpiritualPoliticalSpeakSocialInterestPowerfulPrinciplesIssuesAreasSacredRealmsIntersectionsPolitical Issues Author:Marianne Williamson
“In the art of teaching, we recognize that ideas and insights need to cook over a period of time. Sometimes the student who is least articulate about expressing the ideas is in fact the one who is absorbing and processing them most deeply. This applies as well to our own private learning of our art form; the areas in which we feel most stuck and most incompetent may be our richest gold mine of developing material. The use of silence in teaching then becomes very powerful.” NeedsFeelsWellsMayArtIdeasSometimesFactsUseFormPowerfulSilenceTeachingStudentsMinesMaterialsPeriodsAreasGoldInsightStuckDevelopingCooksVery PowerfulIncompetentAbsorbingProcessing Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch
“Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.” WantWholePowerfulPlayerDangerousAreasCrisisTradeInternationalRationalVulnerableStakesSevereCoalitionsConcessionsReciprocal Author:Thomas Pogge
“Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.” WayCountryBodyBitsPowerfulSeaParticularReadySolutionsAreasTreatsInternationalNot SureCommerceArctic Author:Kofi Annan
“Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.” PeopleIdeasGoalInspiringPowerfulPowerFocusOur LivesResourcesAreasCapacityEncouragementFocusedCommandNo IdeaGiantsLife And LoveFocus On GoalsFocus And ConcentrationPositive FocusLaser Focus Book:Awaken The Giant Within Source: Awaken The Giant Within