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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#dreams #freighted #memories #more #mountains

There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. ↗

— James A. Lovell

#happened #make #makes #need #people

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. ↗

— James Lovelock

#beef #eating #food #gave #land

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time. ↗

— James Lovelock

#could #earth #far #live #living

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive. ↗

— James Lovelock

#environment #favors #leave #nature #organisms

The oil companies regard nuclear power as their rival, who will reduce their profits, so they put out a lot of disinformation about nuclear power. ↗

— James Lovelock

#companies #disinformation #lot #nuclear #nuclear power

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#incredulity #many #nothing #pleasures #return

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. ↗

— James Lovelock

#aspirations #caps #china #emit #gases

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. ↗

— James Lovelock

#average #being #century #degrees #different

I enjoyed hearing people do their own songs. I became attracted to singer-songwriters. I became interested in them as people; was curious about what they wanted to say. ↗

— Lyle Lovett

#attracted #became #curious #enjoyed #hearing