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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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
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'The Lego Movie' did better than we could possibly have imagined. We were very nervous that people would discount it because it is called 'The Lego Movie.'
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A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.
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I'm not a risk taker physically. I just have no interest in swinging myself off a mountaintop or parachute gliding or skiing down a totally vertical drop. These things don't interest me in the slightest, but I get so caught up in the color or the texture of the sounds of something. That's so funny to me.
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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.
