“This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes of us? It has not happened just instantly. It is vulnerable to our actions. But it's the result of four and a half billion years of evolution, of change over time. And it changes every day, all the time. It would be in our interest to try to maintain a certain level of stability that has enabled us to prosper, to not wreck the very systems that give us life.” GivingTryingYearsLooksWould BeActionCertainInterestLevelsResultsHalfFourHappenedPlanetsEvolutionBillionsLikesVulnerableStabilityMarsOur ActionsWrecksVenusSolar SystemJupiterChanges Over Time Author:Sylvia Earle
“ISIS is a monstrosity. It didn't come from nowhere. It's one of the results of the U.S. hitting a very vulnerable society - Iraq - with a sledgehammer.” ResultsIraqVulnerableHittingIsisMonstrosity Author:Noam Chomsky
“Rick Black writes with the honed elegance of a poet so in command of lyric sentiment and the efficient evocative use of language that what results is indeed as urgent and vulnerable as true prayer ... There is something profoundly human and completely necessary about Star of David.” WritingHumansUseLanguageStarsBlackPrayerResultsPoetCommandVulnerableSentimentsEfficientEleganceUrgentUse Of Language Author:Kwame Dawes
“One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.” IfsTryingUniverseGrowsResultsCasesSecurityInformationBehaviorTradeVariousComplicatedCeaseVulnerableBoredZoneMechanismIsolatedInteractionUsersArrangementsVirusesDilemmaMaliciousAntisocialTrade OffsInteraction With OthersAntisocial Behavior Author:Fernando J. Corbato