#ironmen

We may overcompensate for our feelings of powerlessness by attempting to control and manipulate other people and our environment. Or we may eventually burst forth with uncontrolled rage that is highly exaggerated and distorted by its long suppression. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#burst #control #distorted #environment #eventually

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again. ↗

— David Suzuki

#always #battle #environmental #environmental movement #every

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economy #environmental #environmental protection #fragile #hear

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ↗

— David Sylvian

#create #cultural #culture #environment #extent

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day. ↗

— Ryan Sypek

#because #close #college #conservatory #day

In the current environment, we find it very difficult to defend America, and so we keep our silence. Because, to be very frank with you, how can we defend America? ↗

— Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud

#because #current #defend #difficult #environment

I think that we reject the evidence that our world is changing because we are still, as that wonderfully wise biologist E. O. Wilson reminded us, tribal carnivores. We are programmed by our inheritance to see other living things as mainly something to eat, and we care more about our national tribe than anything else. We will even give our lives for it and are quite ready to kill other humans in the cruellest of ways for the good of our tribe. We still find alien the concept that we and the rest of life, from bacteria to whales, are parts of the much larger and diverse entity, the living Earth. ↗

— James Lovelock

#change

People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient. ↗

— Jim Mitchell

#create #effective #efficient #environment #informal

It is my strong hope that an environment will be created in which both of our countries can cooperate for the realization of a world without nuclear weapons. ↗

— Yoshiro Mori

#cooperate #countries #created #environment #hope

No matter how intently one studies the hundred little dramas of the woods and meadows, one can never learn all the salient facts about any one of them. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #nature