"We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature." — Sylvia Earle

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• All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the… — Diane Ackerman
• The eye altering, alters all. — William Blake
• Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can… — John C. Maxwell
• An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be… — Emile Durkheim
• A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for… — Paul Fleischman
• By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, the skillful general keeps the enemy without definite knowledge. By shifting his… — Sun Tzu
• We're all just a bundle of habits shaped by our memories. And to the extent that we control our lives,… — Joshua Foer
• We have the ability to create choice by altering our interpretations of the world. — Sheena Iyengar
• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives. — Carlos Castaneda
• The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience -… — Paul Theroux
• Our legacy is really the lives we touch, the inspiration we give, altering someone's plan - if even for a… — Unknown Author
• If the juices of the body were more chymically examined, especially by a naturalist, that knows the ways of making… — Robert Boyle

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