Filters Quote by John Michael Greer Download Open image ““Hardin, Garrett, Filters Against Folly (New York: Penguin, 1985).”” — John Michael Greer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Filters Filters Folly Folly Folly New Garrett Filters Writer
“Somewhere in the gray wood by the river is the huntsman and in the brooming corn and in the castellated press of cities. His… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“In North Carolina, I stopped to gas up at a Humble Oil station, then walked around the corner to use the toilet. There were… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Randy does a sorting procedure on the diving books now: he ignores anything that has color photographs, or that appears to have been published… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where… — Nikki Rowe Copy Share Image
“Bees and butterflies, moths and dragonflies, the flowers and the brooks and the clouds.” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“That was a long time I used to sit on my suburb balcony looking over a distant horizon and faraway flames of oil-refineries on… — Vladislav Khalyavkin Copy Share Image
“Butterflies and snow angels As the sun shines through the grey Rainbows and snowdrifts” — Richard L. Ratliff Copy Share Image
“CLOUDS SPILLED DOWN FROM THE SKY AND swamped the streets with a hot mist that made the thermometers on the walls perspire. Halfway through” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“There was a quote about "standing in a river too long or long enough" that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“I began to watch places with an interest so exact it might have been memory. There was that street corner, with the small newsagent… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
“. . . They had skies of pure azure and walls of fog moving in and out of the canyons with invisible feet, hills… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There are two common and complementary mistakes, which have been made over and over again concerning spirits by people in the Western world. The… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
EROEI [energy returned on energy invested, or net energy] is to a civilization what gross profit is to a business, the source of the… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a different path… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Authenticity is about where it comes from; validity is about whether it works. — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
... the future is under no obligation to wait patiently while we get ready for it. — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
There’s no such thing as technology in the singular, only technologies in the plural. — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“It’s unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises,… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle to our… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
I can't build a simple shelf. I have no idea how to change an oil filter on a car. I can't even stick a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence. — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I… — Helen Zille Copy Share Image
Further, in writing, I feel corrupt and unethical if I have to look up a subject in a library as part of the writing… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
The beautiful thing about music is that even so-called negative emotions like anger, sadness, frustration, when they come through the filter of music, they… — Hiromi Copy Share Image
The difference between a stranger sending you a message that you might be interested in at a very low volume level, no repetition, just… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
It is impossible to estimate full influence of the reading of the Word in a home day after day and year after year. It… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Groups become more extreme and entrenched in their beliefs and polarized from others when members only exchange information that reinforces their views and filter… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
Eating liver out of a cow's body is like eating the filter out of a car. — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
But ripped out of context, ["Who am I to judge?" phrase] has become an all-purpose filter through which everything else - including the pope's… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
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