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“Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always changes. Extinctions of life are normal. Planet Earth is dynamic and evolving. Climate changes are cyclical and random. Through the eyes of a geologist, I would be really concerned if there were no change to Earth over time. In the light of large rapid natural climate changes, just how much do humans really change climate?”

“The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”

Men Humans Reason Christian Human Beings Sleep Sea South Sober Heathen Cannibal Fear Me

Author:Herman Melville

“We have converted huge swaths of land and ocean into human habitats where we live and grow food and harvest energy. But there's been a sea change in the past century.”

Humans Past Energy Grows Sea Land Century Huge Ocean Harvest Habitat Sea Change

Author:Annalee Newitz

“Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm.”

Humans Mean Ability Levels Sea Rivers Storm Rising Farms Bangladesh Delta Sanitation Backing Up

Author:Bill Gates

“Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically.”

“The realms of good fortune and calamity in human life are all made of thoughts and imaginings. Therefore Buddhists say that the burning of desire for gain is itself a pit of fire, while drowning in greedy love is itself a bitter sea. The moment thoughts are pure, fierce flames become a pond; the moment you become aware, the boat has arrived on the further shore. If your thoughts vary at all, your world will immediately differ, so can we not be careful?”

“Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.”

“There goes many a ship to sea, with many hundred souls in one ship, whose weal and woe is common, and is a true picture of a commonwealth or a human combination or society. It hath fallen out sometimes that Papists, Protestants, Jews, and Turks may be embarked in one ship; upon which supposal I affirm that all the liberty of conscience that ever I pleaded for turns upon these two hinges: that none of the Papists, Protestants, Jews, or Turks be forced to come to the ships prayers or worship, nor be compelled [restrained] from their own particular prayers or worship, if they practice any.”

Ifs Humans May Two Soul Sometimes Turns Prayer Common Liberty Practice Sea Particular Worship Hundred Conscience Jew Ships Combination Fallen Woe Compelled Protestants Commonwealth Hinges

Author:Roger Williams

“Sea level rise and destruction of water resources as glaciers melt alone may have horrendous human consequences.”

Humans May Water Levels Sea Consequence Resources Destruction Glaciers Water Resources Sea Level Rise

Author:Noam Chomsky

“There is a very common, though also very silly, picture of Kant according to which as empirical beings we are not free at all, and we are free only as noumenal jellyfish floating about in an intelligible sea above the heavens, outside any context in which our supposedly "free" choices could have any conceivable human meaning or significance. Part of the problem here is that Kant faces up honestly to the fact that how freedom is possible is a deep philosophical problem to which there is no solution we can rationally comprehend.”

Humans Facts Problem Faces Choices Heaven Common Sea Solutions Philosophical Honestly Silly Significance Floating Free Choice Jellyfish Deep Philosophical

Author:Allen W. Wood

“I love swimming in the darker seas, so even if I play a noble guy (well, like Lincoln for instance) I am pre-disposed to try and show the conflict; the regret; the less-than-perfect choices that any human faces. That's what I like and it seems to be what the camera likes to see me do.”

Ifs Trying Humans Wells Play Shows Seems Faces Guy Choices Perfect Sea Regret Conflict Cameras Noble Likes Instance Swimming Human Faces I Love Swimming

Author:Bill Oberst Jr.

“It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.”

Humans Use Sea Duty Theory Select Human Intelligence Dependable

Author:Plato

“Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.”

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”

Humans Human Beings Powerful Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Angling Great Fishing Fish Tanks

Book:Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

Source: Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin

“Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend continues, truly catastrophic consequences are likely to ensue from rising sea levels, to reduced water availability, to more heat waves and fires.”

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

Thinking World Should Mind Humans Black Sea Ignorance Islands Midst Human Mind Infinity Dread Inability Voyages Merciful Placid

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“at the press conference for the film he impressed everyone with his complete sincerity and innocence. he said he had come to see the sea for the first time and marveled at how clean it was. someone told him that, in fact, it wasn't. 'when the world is emptied of human beings' he said, 'it will become so again”

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Author:Werner Herzog

“We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown.”

Humans Girl Voice Sea Red Brown Chamber Human Voice Seaweed

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.”

Men Humans Soul Eye Spirit Greater Sea Sky Infinite Complexes Brilliant Mysterious Obscure Human Soul Formidable

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being.”

World Humans Persons Matter Earth Bits Human Beings Sea Produce Wind Flower Stones No Matter What Complexes Terror Hello

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

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