#peri

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. ↗

— Gary Larson

#changed #comparable #demands #diversity #earth

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#cannot #conduct #confirm #daily #embedded

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#daily experience #experience #individual #need #never-ending

Iggy. This is not a democracy," I said,(...)"It's a Maxocracy. ↗

— James Patterson

#iggy #maxocracy #experience

I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I've regained a bit of that in the last few years but there was a period of my life in which I had a very low opinion of people in general. ↗

— Jude Law

#champion #feel #few #general #great

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard. ↗

— Jude Law

#centers #everything #experienced #face #found

Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#blood #deep #description #experience #explanation

I think doing period piece is easier, because after a certain distance, everybody is equal, I think. The relative contemporary is harder. I think that's the way it is. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #certain #contemporary #distance #doing

I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me. ↗

— Ang Lee

#exhausting #experience #fulfilling #i #i think

We have increasingly fewer and fewer journalists who have any military experience and understand what life is like in the military and in combat. ↗

— Jim Lehrer

#combat #experience #fewer #increasingly #journalists