Quotes about "Climate & Sustainability"

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. ”

The Indians seemed to be living in a place and in a way that was of immense importance to me. So I associate learning to read - English, oddly enough - with wanting to know about Indians. I'm still growing into it. I've never outgrown that. ”

In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school. ”

I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days. ”

People in Hollywood can condescend to the way a lot of other people are living. ”

I like living in Berkeley, but I know Berkeley's not the world. ”

In the deep corner of my heart, I'm a Chicagoan, but it's been covered over by 20 years of living in the Bay Area. ”

America loses so much of what defines it if you subtract the Chinese influence. I know this because I spent 12 years living in one of America's most popular tourist destinations: San Francisco. And it would not be one of America's top tourist destinations without Chinatown. ”

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. ”

Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be. ”