Civilization Quote by Vaclav Smil Download Open image “No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.” — Vaclav Smil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civilization Could Dependence Freedom Human Human civilization
There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source. — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte Copy Share Image
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life. — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
Violence is not necessary to destroy a civilization. Each civilization dies from indifference toward the unique values which created it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila Copy Share Image
We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents cover 109,000… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Whenever we touch nature we get clean. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The invention of gunpowder and the constant improvement of firearms are enough in themselves to show that the advance of civilization has done nothing… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The mission is, not to replace old world mindlessness with new world mindlessness, but to put an end to all forms of brainless authoritarianism.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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