Richard Louv Quotes
The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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Any frequent visitor to Hawaii is fixated on mapping how the islands have changed since their last visit.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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A writers' ring is where a group of four or five authors agree to promote each other's work on their own websites and via their social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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For peace to come, it is time for them - and all of us - to live up to our responsibilities.
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The smallest bacterium is so much more like people than Stanley Miller’s mixtures of chemicals, because it already has these system properties. So to go from a bacterium to people is less of a step than to go from a mixture of amino acids to that bacterium.
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Despite the unquestionable greatness of the Anglo-Saxon genius, it is impossible not to see that the laws of revolutions are least understood precisely in the Anglo-Saxon countries.
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China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.
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I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.
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I love Spanish food. My diet is the Mediterranean diet, which is good food. I eat well.
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My mom would walk through a fire pit for me, and I'd do the same for her.
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The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.
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I love to have battles of the wits with people that can dish fast and dirty - and it leads to problems occasionally, 'cause I can sound mean without attempting to be mean.
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When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
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There is a disturbing reincarnation of socialist and nationalist dictatorships raising their heads around the world and even in our own back yard. You see it in places like Venezuela and Bolivia, stoked in no small part by Cuba, and also in Central Asia, and troubling trends in Russia and China.
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The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
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First we've got population. Now, the world today has 6.8 billion people. That's headed up to about nine billion. Now, if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that (forecast) by, perhaps, 10 or 15 percent, but there we see an increase of about 1.3 (per year).
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You can only see what you believe-nothing else is possible.
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I feel like everyone I meet is an imaginary friend. I don't know. The older I get the more I wonder what's real.
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The future will belong to the nature-smart-those individuals, families, businesses, and political leaders who develop a deeper understanding of the transformative power of the natural world and who balance the virtual with the real. The more high-tech we become, the more nature we need.
