Quotes about "Environmental & Nature"

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will. ”

Regardless of politics, our world will continue to change rapidly. ”

Regardless of what humans do to the climate, there will still be a rock orbiting the sun. ”

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. ”

Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. ”

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty. ”

Apart from anything else, I find boots are too hot except in wintry weather. At home I usually wear a sweater, shirt and slacks. ”

My uncle worked in emergency wards dealing with people who came in with terrible injuries. He talked about the sketch shows they would put on to lighten the atmosphere. You often find this sense of grim humor in hospitals. The injuries people are suffering are ghastly. You have to laugh at something or you'd otherwise cry. ”

I loved the energy of Dublin and the fact that it's so close to the sea, with beauty spots such as Howth so close to hand. ”

A memoir is not an autobiography. It's a true story told as a novel, using techniques of novelization. The author is allowed to compress events, combine characters, change names, change the sequence of events, just as if he's writing a novel. But it's got to be true. ”