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Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
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What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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The rocks have a history; gray and weatherworn, they are veterans of many battles; they have most of them marched in the…
— John Burroughs
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In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In…
— Pope Pius XI
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Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys.
— Billy Graham
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
— Elizabeth Kolbert
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Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.
— Ben Rector
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The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It's a journey of discovery - there…
— Rick Warren
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You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.
— Faith Hunter
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He was the sort of person who stood on mountaintops during thunderstorms in wet copper armour shouting 'All the Gods are bastards.'
— Terry Pratchett
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Sam said to me the other day, "I love you like 20 tyrannosauruses on 20 mountaintops," and this is the exact same…
— Anne Lamott
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Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the…
— Andy Andrews
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God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is…
— Keith Ablow
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