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“It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.”

Firsts Issues Environment Century Security Future Twenties National Security

Book:The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

Source: The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War

“The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.”

Knows Years Firsts Environment Fit Twenties

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“MID-TWENTIES BREAKDOWN: A period of mental collapse occurring in one's twenties, often caused by an inability to function outside of school or structured environments coupled with a realization of one's essential aloneness in the world. Often marks induction into the ritual of pharmaceutical usage.”

World School Environment Periods Essentials Function Mark Twenties Realization Ritual Collapse Inability Breakdown Usage Pharmaceutical

Book:Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

Source: Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life. I also try to convey what it feels like and sounds like and smells like and looks like inside of my particular skin, to move through the world as a black American woman in her mid-twenties. Language from songs and TV shows feel integral because it helps to create the environment and describe the full picture.”

World Feels Trying Looks Helping Shows Feelings Moving Artist Song Language Sound Black Environment Particular Tvs Happenings Skins Twenties Smell Statements Tv Shows American Woman Messiness

Author:Morgan Parker

“Thanks to my mother, not a single cardboard box has found its way back into society. We receive gifts in boxes from stores that went out of business twenty years ago.”

Way Years Mother Found Environment Mom Years Ago Twenties Boxes Stores Thanks Being A Mom Recycling Cardboard Boxes Small Gifts

Author:Erma Bombeck

“Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”

Source: Game Management 118

“The amazing exhibition of oil which has characterized the last twenty years, and will probably characterize the next ten or twenty years, is nevertheless, not only geologically but historically, a temporary and vanishing phenomenon.”

Years Lasts Next Energy Environment Ten Twenties Climate Change Oil Phenomenon Temporary Nevertheless Exhibitions Vanishing

Author:Peter Lesley

“...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say, a twenty-five-year period.”

Years Energy Goal Environment Five Ought Periods Program Twenties Climate Change Accomplish Five Years Internals Engines Strategic Twenty Five Eliminating Combustion

Author:Al Gore

“As we progress into the twenty-first century, anyone who considers themselves a realist will have to make the environment a top priority.”

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Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of all trips outside the home, for whatever distance or whatever purpose, Americans now get in a car. On average the total walking of an American these days - that's walking of all types: from car to office, from office to car, around the supermarket and shopping malls - adds up to 1.4 miles a week, barely 350 yards a day.”

Home Purpose Walks Environment Week Minutes Car Type Walking Office Percent Twenties Distance Add Average Miles These Days Shopping Yards Trails Malls Supermarkets Appalachian Trail

Author:Bill Bryson