“I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will break and then you will get a complete and massive change in the climate in which the survival of human species might not be compatible.” ThinkingHumansMightBreakLimitsSurvivalClimateSpeciesClimate ChangeMassiveCompatibleHuman SpeciesMassive Change Author:Michael Meacher
“The perception of potential threats to survival may be much more important in determining behavior than the perceptions of potential profits, so that profit maximization is not really the driving force. It is fear of loss rather than hope of gain that limits our behavior.” MayImportantForceLossLimitsBehaviorPerceptionSurvivalGainsThreatProfitDrivingDriving ForceProfit Maximization Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to simple survival until death happens along. So I am engaged in striving to maintain equilibrium sufficient to at least realize survival in a way to astound the gods.” MenWayHappensRealizingSimpleCreativeLimitsSurvivalFunctionStriveSufficientEngagedEquilibriumEndeavourCreative Work Author:L. Ron Hubbard
“... I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.” IfsLongBookEndsLyingMy OwnSecretDoubtLimitsSurvivalAssumingThings To DoPaceRainbowExceed Author:Diane Arbus
“Gardening is akin to writing stories. No experience could have taught me more about grief or flowers, about achieving survival by going, your fingers in the ground, the limit of physical exhaustion.” WritingStoriesGriefAchieveTaughtFlowerLimitsSurvivalGardenFingersGardeningExhaustionWriting Stories Author:Eudora Welty
“There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment.” IfsNeedsLittlesValuesNationsPresidentSecurityDangerLimitsSurvivalTraditionGravesOfficialsAnxiousCensorshipSecret SocietyConcealment Author:John F. Kennedy
“Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.” MenWorldHumansMayMeanGovernmentAgeEarthGrowsNaturalSpaceLimitsSurvivalResourcesSafetyPressesPopulationScalesImmortalityDesperateGuaranteesMischiefNatural ResourcesDisarmamentColonizationWorld Government Author:Poul Anderson