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If you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, you are looking the wrong way.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.—->I dont believe in environmentalism as the solution to anything. What I believe is that environmentalism illuminates the things that need to be done to solve all of the problems together.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It’s irrational.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.
Barry CommonerBarry Commoner The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
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Art and literature have given so many people the relief of feeling connected – pulled us out of isolation. It has let us know that somebody else breathed and dreamed and had sex and loved and raged and knew loneliness the way we do.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich Like ‘naive,’ ‘impulsive’ and ‘way too connected online,’ are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
Adora SvitakAdora Svitak I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, Many times it’s connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.
Adrian GrenierAdrian Grenier Men are not as sophisticated as women. They’re not as mature as women. They’re not as connected with their emotions as women…
Adam LevineAdam Levine And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
Adam HochschildAdam Hochschild Growing inequality is a huge problem, and of course is intimately connected to xenophobia and racism.
Adam HochschildAdam Hochschild I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn’t have, or what I still wanted.
Adam LambertAdam Lambert I think that’s why it feels like songs are really connected, and I like that. They’re all worked on kind of like a little family.
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