Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The concern around probable questions, which in a sense have been hidden, will grow around the world and the matter is critical,… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe. — Valerie Trierweiler Copy Share Image
. . . since being a Jew not only means that I bear within me a catastrophe that occurred yesterday and cannot… — Jean Amery Copy Share Image
The nature of catastrophe is, after all, reasonably unvarying in the way it ruins, destroys, wounds and devastates. But if something can… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The catastrophe of the atomic bombs which shook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are… — Max Mayfield Copy Share Image
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We worry about the seemingly ever-increasing number of natural catastrophes. Yet this is mainly a consequence of CNN - we see many… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
It was my view that the catastrophe. . . . could have been avoided if Vasilevsky had taken the position he should… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
There's a difference between just gaining access to a commodity as opposed to a spirit that allows us to live a life… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to… — Eric Chivian Copy Share Image
If we once and for so long lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke… — Lord Randolph Churchill Copy Share Image
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
