Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite. ”

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. ”

I find it very frustrating how much passing the buck there is in the criminal justice system when it comes to taking responsibility for outcomes. ”

Actually creating a positive school climate, particularly in schools that are in communities that are themselves not calm and orderly, is hard work. ”

At the end of the day, I think my story is, we need black officers because African-Americans need a fair shot at good jobs in this country, but we cannot expect them and should not expect them to change the nature of policing. ”

We need to hire more black police officers in this country because these are good jobs, and African Americans should have their fair share of good jobs. But we shouldn't do it because we think that's going to change policing. We have to push for police reform in other ways. ”

What I want, when I write a poem, is no more than this: that it be preserved in some published form so that, in principle, someone, somewhere, will be able to find it and read it. That is all I need, as a poet, and that is the beauty, the luxury of my position. My lyric is mine and remains mine. Nobody can ruin it. ”

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view. ”

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems. ”

You weren't going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world. ”