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“I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.”

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Book:In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

Source: In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena

“The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat slothfully by while they destroyed. We have passed this stage.... Here in the U.S. we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy our forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals - not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements. But at best it looks as if our people were awakening.”

“Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.”

Action Dies Turns Individual Consciousness Environment Behavior Tunes Routine Artificial Trapped Robots Adaptation Sequence Turn-on Harmonious Hooked Reborn Repetitive

Book:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

Source: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

Hands Turns House Individual Environment Source Prison Manifestation Pollution Brutal Cursed Degradation Midas

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“Coming from New York, I know that if you go by a delicatessen, and you put a sweet cucumber in the vinegar barrel, the cucumber might say, "No, I want to retain my sweetness." But it's hopeless. The barrel will turn the sweet cucumber into a pickle. You can't be a sweet cucumber in a vinegar barrel.”

Ifs Knows Want Might Turns Environment New York Sweet Hopeless Sweetness Barrels Vinegar Pickles Cucumbers

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“Listen - man is a child of Nature. When he turns against his mother - he's done! He may not find out about it right away, but he will.”

Men May Children Done Mother Turns Nature Environment

Book:The Stone Field

Source: The Stone Field

“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic of prisms. Guided by the former, art turns into a copy of the environment's objectivity or the individual's psychic history. Guided by the latter, art is redeemed, makes the world into its instrument, and forges, beyond spatial and temporal prisons, a personal vision.”

“One of the first papers I wrote at the University of Wisconsin, in 1977, was on stem cells. I realized that if I changed the environment that these cells were in, I could turn the cells into bone, and if I changed the environment a bit more, they would form fat cells.”

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Author:Bruce H. Lipton

“At a moment when distortions of Islam are what feed most Americans, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin has done something both practical and inspiring. He persuades us that the imperiled environment is both common struggle and common ground for people who share, it turns out, more than simply God.”

People Done Moments Turns Common Struggle Environment Share Islam Practicals Distortion Common Ground Common Struggle

Author:John Hockenberry