Antidote Quote by Jared Diamond

My view is, in between environmental determinism and personal responsibility, we say, "where there's a will there's a way." It's not true. You really…

— David Katz

Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.

— Jared Diamond

“All human societies contain inventive people. It’s just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do…

— Jared Diamond

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

— Jared Diamond

“It is a country to breed mystical people, egocentric people, perhaps poetic people. But not humble ones…Puny you may feel there, and vulnerable, but…

— Wallace Stegner

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just plots of…

— Galen Cranz

“During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a practical knowledge of the construction of small lakes was part of the equipment of most countrymen. Many…

— Elisabeth Beazley

Environmental history fit[s] into the framework of New Left history. [It is] history "from the bottom up," except that here the exploited element [is]…

— Roderick Nash

We may be entering a new phase of history, a time when we begin to rediscover . . . the traditional teaching that power…

— Donald Worster

“By what peculiar twist of perception, I wondered, had I managed to see the plowed fields and second-growth forests of southern Wisconsin—a landscape of…

— William Cronon

“In the 1940s dams were synonymous with progress, and the rivers were to be conquered with the fervour of a pioneer wielding an axe.”

— Tim Palmer

“Born of antimodern sentiment, the summer camp was ultimately a modern phenomenon, a "therapeutic space" as much dependent on the city, the factory, and…

— Sharon Wall