#alter

Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle. ↗

— David Suzuki

#activity #altering #carbon #cycle #earth

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched. ↗

— David Suzuki

#biological #chemical #geological #globe #left

Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#confrontation #confronting #current #military #security

It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#environments #hurts #many #market #means

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real. ↗

— Tomas Transtromer

#always #become #before #choices #crossroads

When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot. ↗

— Ruggero Leoncavallo

#carried #composition #down #even #find