“When you're in the womb, you're in a sterile environment. When you enter the birth canal and the world, you're not. Very quickly, you have, living on the surface of your body, trillions of bacteria, literally trillion.” BornEnvironmentBirthSkinsNosesThroatWombLiving OnCanalsBacteria Author:Paul A. Offit
“I think that women as a group are so powerful. I still don't think we are able to embrace our power well enough yet. We think we live in a man's world and we have to follow their rules, and yet, we're so different, and our rules are so different. I wish that we could come together more as a political force. If women ran the world, I don't believe that there would be war. I really don't.... We understand the bigger picture. We understand our impact on the environment, on the world. We understand the generations that will go after us because we gave birth to them.” IfsThinkingMenWorldBelieveWellsStillsDifferentWarEnoughWould BeAbleTogetherPoliticalForceWishWomenPowerfulEnvironmentGenerationsGroupsBirthBiggerImpactEmbraceDon't BelieveRanBigger Picture Author:Kyra Sedgwick
“Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.” DoneHelpingOrderUniverseGrowthTermNaturalEnvironmentBirthOrdinaryRootsHarmonyPerceiveCyclesDecayNatural EnvironmentBirth And Death Author:Fritjof Capra
“Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die.” PeopleNeedsGivingHumansHomeDiesGrowthHealingEnvironmentShareConditionsDyingHealthBirthFitHealthyDietsMatesHuman ConditionInterferenceGet WellHealthy Diet Author:Ivan Illich
“I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.” ChildrenCareAblePayTalkingEnvironmentBirthSafeUnionsConservativeDon't CareArguingAmazedColleaguesPro LifeChild CareWork Environment Author:Nina Turner
“The hunting season is sacred. It's been sacred in my life since birth. I've never missed a hunting season in 64 years. It's my calling, it's what I am, it's how I was designed, it's what inspires, fascinates, satisfies, and drives my quality of life. And I know that it brings me such joy, and it does such a critical and essential performance for nature and for the environment, that I am dedicated and have been for over 40 years to promoting and celebrating that. I never defend it. I always promote and celebrate it.” KnowsYearsDoeHas BeensJoyQualityEnvironmentInspireBirthCallingEssentialsPerformancesSeasonsSacredCriticalCelebrateDedicatedHuntingPromotingQuality Of LifeHunting Season Author:Ted Nugent
“It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.” DoeWinningGrowthBornEnvironmentMysteryBirthArgumentBoringOur EnvironmentSimplify Book:A Prayer For Owen Meany Source: A Prayer For Owen Meany
“And, I think: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. Of the millions, I, too, was potentially everything at birth. I, too, was stunted, narrowed, warped, by my environment, my outcroppings of heredity. I, too, will find a set of beliefs, of standards to live by, yet the very satisfaction of finding them will be marred by the fact that I have reached the ultimate in shallow, two-dimensional living — a set of values.” ThinkingTwoMatterFactsValuesBeliefRealizingAbilityExistenceMillionsEnvironmentSeaBirthFindingsStandardsUltimateSatisfactionDefinedLive ByShallowHeredity Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.” WorldEnergyWaterEnvironmentBirthCrisisClimateSoilOld WorldConvergence Author:Charles Eisenstein