Capacity Quote by Tim Winton Download Open image “Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.” — Tim Winton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Obvious Overfishing Threat
Overfishing, global warming and pollution are destroying the ocean. — Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden Copy Share Image
We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
The biggest danger we face is overfishing. We literally could fish out our oceans, some scientists believe, in the next 40, 50, 60 years. We are fishing out the top of the food chain, and it's pretty crucial because about 200 million people depend on fish and fishing for their livelihood, and about a billion people, mostly in poorer countries,… — Ted Danson Copy Share
“The planet may never recover from the environmental devastation wrought by commercial fishing. It seems that our oceans, once thought to hold an endless… — Hope Bohanec Copy Share Image
The availability of fish is a food security issue. We need to stop our first world fleets taking fish from the mouths of the… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
If you want to maintain a sustainable supply of fish you have to farm the fish, rather than mine them. So putting your money… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in… — Norman Schwarzkopf Copy Share Image
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
We're [Ocean Conservancy group] trying to convince people it's a bad idea to catch fish faster than they can reproduce. That should be a… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Where I had expected to appreciate the monuments and love the natural environment, the reality was entirely the reverse. The immense beauty of many… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I've been a writer and a parent since adolescence, it feels like, and I'm still making both gigs up as I go along. I… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water. — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Few landscapes have been so deeply known. And fewer still have been so lightly inhabited.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Life was something you didn't argue with, because when it came down to it, whether you barracked for God or nothing at all, life… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“Shit, he said as a great, green glut of water poured up at our feet. I wonder what the ordinary people are doin today.” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
I guess it must be a time-of-life thing, looking back and trying to make some sense of who I am and where I've been.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
Will you look at us by the river! The whole restless mob of us on spread blankets in the dreamy briny sunshine skylarking and… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The night is full of stories. They float up like miasmas, as though the dead leave their dreams in the earth where you bury… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image