William Cronon Quotes
At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.
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When I entered into office mid-recession, my No. 1 focus was Utah's economy. We set bold goals, and we've built one of the best-performing economies in the nation.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I'll proudly stand with one of the great leaders this state and country have ever produced: Rick Perry.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.
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I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart.
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If you've got aspirations to be a manager or coach, obviously coaching your country would be a great honour.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.
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Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
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The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
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I chose a pseudonym, Chris Marker, pronounceable in most languages, because I was very intent on traveling.
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A good headline is far more than a summary. It has to characterize, in a few brief words, the most important themes and news items of the article it accompanies.
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I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
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If you were approaching the TARP investments from a pure investment standpoint, then there's no doubt in my mind the taxpayer lost, and probably lost big.
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Anybody with my background in the airline business who is not deaf is a fraud.
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Dizzy used to tell me that I am playing too hard. He used to say to not give everything. Miles used to tell me that too.
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I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.
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I have to trick myself into writing a story - impose some arbitrary constraint to distract me from the constraints of my past habits or my fear that I don't have much to say.
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At a time when threats to the physical environment have never been greater, it may be tempting to believe that people need to be mounting the barricades rather than asking abstract questions about the human place in nature. Yet without confronting such questions, it will be hard to know which barricades to mount, and harder still to persuade large numbers of people to mount them with us. To protect the nature that is all around us, we must think long and hard about the nature we carry inside our heads.
