Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

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• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
  • Challenges

• We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Law
  • Down
  • Environmental

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Healthy
  • Environmental

• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Question
  • Photography
  • Environmental

• Environmental quality was drastically improved while economic activity grew by the simple expedient of removing lead from gasoline - which prevented it from entering the environment.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Environment

• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Environment
  • Chaos

• I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • World
  • Like
  • Environmental

• I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Idea
  • Being
  • Youngest

• Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Single
  • Challenge
  • Driving

• My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Suicide

• My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that people aren't given equality of opportunity.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Feeling

• The idea was always to be an actor.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Always
  • Idea
  • Actor

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Idea
  • Understand
  • Hollywood

• A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Growth
  • Search
  • Stock

• It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Crass

• So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Beautiful
  • Culture
  • Idea

• Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Alone
  • Waiting

• A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Competition
  • Environmental

• Look within,

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Teacher
  • Teaching
  • Differences

• When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Time
  • Man
  • Reflect

• Plot idea: 97% of the world's scientists contrive an environmental crisis, but are exposed by a plucky band of billionaires & oil companies.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Idea
  • Environmental
  • Companies