“I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.” PeopleMenNeedsUseTodayAmericaNumbersStageFieldsDependsHappeningsForestsRationalReasonableGrainContinentsIrrationalFinitePlagueAttackingNorth AmericaMassacresPests Author:Edward Abbey
“The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation.” MenChildrenEarthNationsUnitedEffortActingTechnologyGroupsAirSeaConditionsConcernTasksEnvironmentalHungerAlliesPollutionUnited NationsFoePlagueHazardsPlunderPestilenceScience TechnologyTechnology And Education Author:John F. Kennedy
“In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology... But the counter-irritant usually proves a greater plague than the initial irritant, like a drug habit.” MenArtGivenTechnologyGreaterViolenceHabitDrugProveExperimentsPlagueInitialsPsychSpecificationsIrritants Book:Understanding media: the extensions of man Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man