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Charles Lathrop Pack, president of the American Tree Association, told how Rogers gave him advice in handling an educational campaign in tree planting. 'Will Rogers told me,' said Pack, 'that I was on the wrong track in trying to educate people to the value of putting idle land to work growing trees. "Pack," he said, "you go down to Washington and get Congress to pass a law prohibiting tree planting and you'll have everybody doing it in a week. ↗


— P.J. O'Brien


#humor #trees #education

At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism. Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers? ↗


— Arundhati Roy


#capitalism #corporations #dam #economics #environmental-degradation

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. ↗


— Mark Twain


#educated #everything #gold #into #iron

One planet, one experiment. ↗


— Edward O. Wilson


#science #experience

Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing. ↗


— Lisa Tenzin-Dolma


#asteroid #astrology #chiron #healer #healing

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. ↗


— T.S. Eliot


#christianity #culture #environment #industry #nature

Good judgment comes by way of experience, which comes of bad judgment. ↗


— Wolf Pascoe


#science #experience

Nobody steals books but your friends. ↗


— Roger Zelazny


#friendship #inspirational #irony #stealing #friendship

You know, Bob, school is school, one of those life experiences we kids all have to get through in order to become you. Then we wonder what all the fuss was about, especially while we're cleaning up your little messes: toxic waste, war, bank bailouts. Honestly, if we ran up debt the way you guys do? You'd ground us, take away our cells, and make us clean toilets with a toothbrush until we'd pay back every penny. ↗


— Ilsa J. Bick


#experience

I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it. ↗


— Edgar Allan Poe


#fool #humor #self-confidence #self-irony #faith






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