#liza

The industrialization of China alone would increase by 90 percent the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere and would at least increase the atmospheric CO2 by at least another 100 parts per million. ↗

— John Olver

#another #atmosphere #atmospheric #china #co2

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating. ↗

— Leonard Orr

#bathtub #every #every time #fantastic #get

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#been #cities #civilization #dark #heat

There's a way, a way way too long but reachable, not for everyone a way but possible... Go and don't lose your way! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#courage-in-life #courage-to-be-oneself #fulfillment #life-contentment-happy #life-path

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#come #correspondingly #end #ever #great

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#civilization #considered #enough #men #might

The slum is the measure of civilization. ↗

— Jacob Riis

#measure #slum

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#friends-to-lovers #love #realizations #relationships #sydney-sage

Well, my wife always says to me, and I think it's true, it's very difficult for us to understand the Elizabethan understanding and enjoyment and perception of form as it is to say... it would be for them to understand computers or going to the moon or something. ↗

— Mark Rylance

#computers #difficult #elizabethan #enjoyment #form

The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance. ↗

— Pierre Schaeffer

#barbarity #certain #certain point #civilization #collapse