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“I always get involved with the environment because once you go past the tipping point with the environment, you don't get it back.”

Past Environment Involved Get Involved Tipping Tipping Point

Author:Chris Noth

“Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past...Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.”

Years Humans Kind Past Energy Human Beings Millions Environment Happened Rocks Century Ocean Climate Change Scales Experiments Atmosphere Carbon Large Scale

Author:Roger Revelle

“I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.”

Earth Past Nature Environment Environmental Biology Unified Past Present Past Present And Future Uncertain Future

Author:Rachel Carson

“For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time.”

Men Made Whole Past Life Is Individual Environment Mankind Possession Valuable Agents Our Time Links Heritage Menace Individual Life Deterioration

Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.”

“Any attempt to break with the past, or with existing social structures, is a failure if it leads to a bored, listless, and colourless style of life; assertive and enduring innovation, like the mastering of a new environment, requires the confidence and discipline which are founded on exuberant emotions.”

Ifs Past Social Emotion Break Environment Style Discipline Innovation Structure Endure Bored Assertive Social Structure New Environment

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“But the pop-up suburb has an incomplete feel to it like something that just wasn't right, wasn't quite real, almost like a movie set. When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids.”

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Book:Hush

Source: Hush

“I think it's tremendously important that women continue to be full participants in the corporate environment, and that they continue to seek the same responsibilities, opportunities and rewards in that environment that in the past have only been available to men.”

Thinking Men Important Past Opportunity Responsibility Environment Rewards Available Corporate Participants

Author:Betty Friedan

“I feel happy about the songs I've written. I'm a great lover of the craft of songwriting, and I sure admire it in other people when I see it - past and present. I feel comfortable with what I have accomplished. I feel happy to be able to work in that environment, and that I have a lot of songs left to be written, somewhere.”

People Feels Able Past Song Left Environment Written Lovers Comfortable Admire Crafts Accomplished Songwriting Great Love Past And Present Great Lovers

Author:John Fogerty