#ali

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#realism #environmentalism

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? ↗

— Jane Goodall

#environmentalism #nature #preservation #nature

One of the striking things about places heavily contaminated by radioactive nuclides is the richness of their wildlife. This is true of the land around Chernobyl, the bomb test sites of the Pacific, and areas near the United States’ Savannah River nuclear weapons plant of the Second World War. Wild plants and animals do not perceive radiation as dangerous, and any slight reduction it may cause in their lifespans is far less a hazard than is the presence of people and their pets. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environmentalism

Perhaps our and Gaia’s greatest error was the conscious abuse of fire. Cooking meat over a wood fire may have been acceptable, but the deliberate destruction of whole ecosystems by fire merely to drive out the animals within was surely our first great sin against the living Earth. It has haunted us ever since and combustion could now be our auto da fé, and the cause of our extinction. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environmentalism

Cutting a tree down doesn't kill it; it erases it from history. ↗

— The Wombat

#true #environmentalism

I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#visualization

Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible ↗

— Cherie Carter-Scott

#impossible #ordinary #possible #visualization

Above all else show the data. ↗

— Edward R. Tufte

#graphics #statistics #visualization

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#truth #self-realization