“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.” WayHumansArtSelfFormHateAliveConditionsPaperClaimsHeavyWoodsAbstractCivilizedHuntingHuman ConditionHuntersHate YouPreyLiftingStalkingPlaying MusicHeavy LiftingHating Yourself Author:Steven Rinella
“In the head-spinning cosmos of climate change, everyday hundreds of people claim there are 'thousands of papers' in support of a theory, yet no one can actually name one single paper with empirical evidence that shows carbon dioxide emissions are the main cause of global warming.” PeopleShowsNamesCausesSupportTheoryPaperEvidenceClaimsClimateEverydayClimate ChangeGlobal WarmingCosmosCarbonPapersSpinningEmissionsCarbon DioxideEmpirical EvidenceCarbon Dioxide EmissionsCauses Of Global Warming Author:Joanne Nova
“I don't like to claim that I am an expert on anything, but I have enough knowledge about climate science and climate system to be able to write scientific papers and go to meetings and talk about monsoon systems and talk about any other things that you want to discuss about climate science issues. I'm as qualified as anybody that you know on this planet on this topic.” KnowsWantWritingEnoughAbleIssuesPlanetsPaperClaimsMeetingsClimateExpertsTopicsPapersQualifiedMonsoons Author:Willie Soon
“In luggage claim at the Minneapolis airport, the guy came up to me and said, "Maybe you're wrong, maybe stories do matter." I wrote that on a scrap of paper and put it above my desk. That was the thing that pushed me through to the end of telling Despereaux, that comment, "Maybe they do...maybe stories matter."” SaidEndsMatterStoriesGuyPaperClaimsCommentDesksAirportsScrapLuggageMinneapolisDespereaux Author:Kate DiCamillo