“I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.” PeopleKindChildrenWholeTogetherNationsCausesPlanetsOkayFlagsPatriot Author:Michael Franti
“As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it?” NextPlanetsOkayScalesAcknowledgeMassiveRepercussions Author:Elizabeth Kolbert
“In the old days, people thought that wouldn't be amenable to life. Modern studies with computers have shown that it's okay to be tidally locked. If a planet heats up on one side and not the other, the atmosphere can still circulate, because heat wants to move around.” PeopleIfsWantStillsMovingSidesStudyModernPlanetsComputerOkayAtmosphereHeatLockedOld DaysAmenable Author:Sara Seager
“I chose to be a photographer twenty-two years ago, but I don't know that I'd make that choice again. Back in the early eighties, I still thought I was doing okay, trying to order and shape the world with my camera. Now that I know a bit more about living and dying, about our planet and its complex problems, I'm a lot less comfortable with my images of people. Still, I haven't a clue what else to do.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingYearsStillsTwoProblemOrderChoicesBitsDyingHavensPlanetsShapesComfortableYears AgoOkayTwentiesCamerasComplexesPhotographerTwo YearsClueEightyOur PlanetTwenty TwoTwo Years AgoComplex Problems Author:Eugene Richards
“The dominant trance of the planet is that we live in a perpetual sense of lack, a perpetual sense of, "If only I could make this small tweak, then I would feel okay." And, of course, none of the tweaks ever work in the long term.” IfsFeelsLongCoursesTermPlanetsOkayLong TermPerpetualDominantTranceTweak Author:Arjuna Ardagh
“And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay?” KnowsWellsPayPlanetsOkayResponsibleActivistApathyCitizenshipLiving OnPassiveness Author:Ray McGovern
“The way I'm doing it is I'm trying to think to myself, "Okay, I have the name Superman, and he's going to be a guy that deserves the name 'Superman.' I'm trying to forget about Krypton, about The Daily Planet what would I do if I was thinking it up?" I can do it any way at all..I can make him an Eskimo midget who's toothless and blind... I can do anything. It's difficult .” IfsThinkingWayTryingI CanGuyNamesDifficultCan DoForgetPlanetsDeserveOkayBlindI Can Do ItMidgetToothlessKrypton Author:Stan Lee
“Rule #3 - It's okay to believe yourself better than the rest of the planet, so long as you keep it to yourself.” BelieveLongPlanetsOkayBelieve In Yourself Author:Bisco Hatori
“We've left the moment. It's gone. We're somewhere else now, and that's okay. We've still got that moment with us somewhere, deep in our memory, seeping into our DNA. And when our cells get scattered , whenever that happens, this moment will still exist in them. Those cells might be the biulding block of something new. A planet or star or a sunflower, a baby. Maybe even a cockroach. Who knows? Whatever it is, it'll be a part of us, this thing right here and now, and we'll be a part of it.” KnowsStillsMomentsMightHappensLeftStarsMemoriesGonePlanetsBabyOkayBlockCellsSomething NewThat MomentDnaSomewhere ElseHere And NowOur MemoriesCockroachesSunflower Author:Libba Bray