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What I love about natural climate solutions is that we should be doing all these things anyway. Instead of making painful choices and deploying miserable means to a desirable end, we can defend ourselves from disaster by enhancing our world of wonders. ”
While some livestock farms are much better than others, there are none in this country that look like natural ecosystems. Nature has no fences. ”
If we want to prevent both climate and ecological catastrophes, the key task is to minimise the amount of land we use to feed ourselves, while changing the way the remaining land is farmed. Instead, governments almost everywhere pour public money into planetary destruction. ”
As the scale of economic activity increases until capitalism affects everything, from the atmosphere to the deep ocean floor, the entire planet becomes a sacrifice zone: we all inhabit the periphery of the profit-making machine. ”
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power. ”
Speech is the small change of silence. ”
What is more beautiful than a sea of water with a number of white-winged boats skirting its surface? Poetry and beauty contesting with the wind and the waves! ”
It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time. ”
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds. ”
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint. ”