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“Most of us have become Ecozombies, desensitized, environmental deadheads. On average, society conditions us to spend over 95% of our time and 99.9% of our thinking disconnected from nature. Nature's extreme absence in our lives leaves us abandoned and wanting. We feel we never have enough. We greedily, destructively, consume and, can't stop. Nature's loss in our psyche produces a hurt, hungering, void within us that bullies us into our dilemmas.”

Source: The Web of Life Imperative: Regenerative Ecopsychology Techniques That Help People Think in Balance with Natural Systems

“Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.”

Humans Persons Community Deals Secret Accepting Vision Conditions Willing Genius Higher Degrees Rate Average Creator Nerves Daring Innovators Unexplored

Author:Nathaniel Branden

“The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population.”

People Conditions Depends Average Population Improvement Faster Improving Advancing Deteriorating

Author:John Stuart Mill

“Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.”

“Britain, with the most completely socialized health system in the West, now spends the lowest fraction of GNP on health care of any major nation. There are frequent complaints of excessive waits for elective surgery and other inconveniences, but British citizens live slightly longer than Americans, on average, and our overall health conditions are comparable.”

Care Nations Waiting Conditions Citizens Majors West Average British Health Care Britain Surgery Complaints Lowest Fractions Inconvenience Health System Overall Health

Book:The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

Source: The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice

“A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.”

Men Mother Conditions Average Defined Housewife Single Mother

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.”

Winning Chance Conditions Average Underdog

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.”

Years Has Beens Today Four Conditions Average Scripts Pbs

Author:Julie Bishop