“I enjoy a four-seasonal climate and wide-open spaces, so being on an island 2,500 miles into the South Pacific made me feel a little claustrophobic.” FeelsLittlesMadeEnjoySpaceFourSouthClimateWideMilesIslandsPacificOpen SpacesWide Open Spaces Author:Matthew Fox
“I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.” PeopleThinkingWantMeanLittlesCausesRiskProductsLowsClimateClimate ChangeIncludingBoardsConsumptionElectricityCarbonTransportEmissionsGreenhousesGreenhouse GasesGreat RiskHeating Author:Nicholas Stern
“I felt I was moving among two groups [literary intellectuals and scientists] comparable in intelligence, identical in race, not grossly different in social origin, earning about the same incomes, who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral and psychological climate had so little in common that instead of going from Burlington Hom or South Kensington to Chelsea, one might have crossed an ocean.” LittlesTwoDifferentMightMovingScienceSocialFeltCommonRaceMoralGroupsSocietyOceanIntellectualScientistSouthClimateCommunicateIncomePsychologicalEarningIdenticalChelsea Author:C.P. Snow
“All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.” WorldLittlesMatterSeemsBeautifulChanceSeaSkyLandColdEternalAnd LoveHotClimateEnvironmentalCalmWaveWoodsStormSpotsCrystalsBalloonsBeauty And LoveEternal BeautyWild WorldWorld Is Beautiful Book:John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir