“To be able to make up stories has been a great gift to me from my ancestors and from the storytellers who were so numerous at Laguna Pueblo when I was growing up. I learned to read as soon as I could because I wanted stories without having to depend on adults to tell or read stories to me.” Has BeensStoriesAbleWantedGrowing UpGrowingDependsAdultsAncestorStorytellerGreat Gifts Author:Leslie Marmon Silko
“In a consumer society, expectations dare not plateau, because a growing economy depends on rising expectations... The more we let our level of contentment be determined by outside factors-a new car, fashionable clothes, a prestigious career, social status-the more we relinquish control over our own happiness.” SocialLevelsCareersEconomyGrowingCarDependsClothesExpectationsDareDeterminedFactorsConsumersRisingContentmentConsumerismFashionableOverconsumptionNew CarSocial StatusPrestigiousGrowing EconomyFashionable Clothes Author:Paul Brand
“Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces.” MenForceGrowingSubjectsAwarenessCreationDependsSurvivalHarmonyEnvironmentalWelfareCombatCosmicSustainabilityHere And There Book:Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson Source: Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson
“While growing up, I always had to depend on foreign authors for page-turners. I think of myself as a commercial writer, and my job is simple to entertain you.” ThinkingJobsSimpleGrowing UpGrowingDependsPagesTurner Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.” EarthLeftGrowingSeaDependsHealthyOceanPopsBottlesPlasticCigaretteTrash Author:Zoe Helene
“Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.” PeopleWayKindSaidSometimesEyeNightAcceptingMorningGrowingDependsBagsWrinklesGrowing Older Author:Antonio Banderas