“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.” ThinkingKnowsWayFeelsShouldWritingYearsWellsMeanLongStillsBookDifferentDoneBigsAgeTodaySchoolJobsNextLiteratureNamesNationsCommunityMy OwnEnvironmentFiveGenerationsYears AgoHonestlyFive YearsLong WayNext GenerationCatchingRelevanceOur CommunityNigeriaLong Way To Go Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“Yes, I am optimistic about the environment. If you assume business is exerting the most negative influence on the environment and also has the possibility to impact it positively, there are a bunch of forces that are impacting business that are fundamentally different from the situation 3 or 4 years ago.” IfsYearsDifferentForceBusinessSituationEnvironmentInfluencePossibilityNegativeYears AgoImpactAssumingBunchOptimisticPositivelyNegative Influence Author:Jeffrey Hollender
“We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie was created in the 70s. There are great advances but with those come a great many complications.We felt that the character needed to grow up in that kind of environment and had to face those kinds of colossal choices that were not going to be easy. It's difficult to figure out the right path. And even if you do good there are causalities to your choices. We thought it would be compelling.” IfsYearsKindCharacterWould BeFacesChoicesGrowsFeltEasyDifficultGrowing UpPathEnvironmentFiguresNeededYears AgoComplicatedGreat MenCompellingComplicationRight PathColossalCausalitySuperman Movie Author:Charles Roven
“The world population 60 years ago was just over 2 billion and it's now more than 6 billion. This huge increase - an explosion really - has probably done more harm to the environment than anything else.” WorldYearsDoneEnvironmentHugeYears AgoIncreasePopulationHarmBillionsExplosionsWorld Population Author:Prince Philip
“There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at adapting to new environments in relatively short periods of time. The ancestors of Homo sapiens started leaving Africa over one million years ago, moving from warm, tropical climates into the freezing wilderness of Europe and the desert ecosystems of the Middle East.” YearsHumansMovingHumanityMillionsEnvironmentMiddlePeriodsEuropeYears AgoClimateLeavingWarmEastDesertThemeWildernessAncestorMiddle EastAdaptationOur EnvironmentHomo SapiensEcosystemsAdaptingFreezingTropicalRecurringNew EnvironmentRecurring Themes Author:Annalee Newitz
“I had a book come out several years ago, when there were no blogs. This is a mark to me about how the environment has changed.” YearsBookEnvironmentChangedYears AgoMarkBlogs Author:Sam Abell
“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.” WayYearsMotherFoundEnvironmentMomYears AgoTwentiesBoxesStoresThanksBeing A MomRecyclingCardboard BoxesSmall Gifts Author:Erma Bombeck
“If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.” IfsWorldYearsStatesScienceRichEnvironmentMankindThousandTenYears AgoEnvironmentalChaosDisappearCollapseThousand YearsInsectsEquilibriumSave Mother EarthWorld EnvironmentChaos In The World Author:E. O. Wilson
“If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.” IfsYearsScienceNatureNaturalCareersEnvironmentAreasYears AgoIndifferenceFiftyWildernessAdulthoodBiographiesEntering Author:Charles Lindbergh
“I believe in God. It makes no sense to me to assume that the Universe and our existence is just a cosmic accident, that life emerged due to random physical processes in an environment which simply happened to have the right properties. As a Christian I begin to comprehend what life is all about through belief in a Creator, some of whose nature was revealed by a man born about 2000 years ago.” MenYearsBelieveChristianLife IsUniverseBeliefI BelieveProcessBornExistenceEnvironmentHappenedAtheismYears AgoAssumingPropertyCreatorI Believe InDuesAccidentsBelieve In GodCosmicI Believe In God Author:Antony Hewish