#cons

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. ↗

— George Carlin

#environment #song-lyrics #beauty

You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment. ↗

— Jong-yong Yun

#change #constantly #environment #must #new

They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #buy #consistently #drop #fans

I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism. ↗

— Daniel Okrent

#consciously #even #evil #i #journalism

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

#another #became #consequence #during #efforts

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#changes #constitutes #distasteful #friends #growing

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. ↗

— Carl Safina

#conservation #hope #nature #change

Rather nice night, after all. Stars are out and everything. Exceptionally tasty assortment of them. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#night #stars #beauty

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. ↗

— Karl Pearson

#benevolence #consciousness #order #perception #reason

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#constraints #controlled #ideals #material #much