Alan Weisman Quotes

#1. The Panama Canal,' says Abdiel Perez, 'is like a wound that humans inflicted on the Earth
one that nature is trying to heal.

Alan Weisman

#2. The worst happens, and life still goes on.

Alan Weisman

#3. And I kissed a lot of frogs as well, but no, I kissed a lot of frogs and now I've found my prince.

Joan Collins

#4. I hated him- I hated him for everything he had done, but, more than that, I hated him for being right.

Alexandra Bracken

#5. Now I know why Baby Suggs pondered color her last years. She never had time to see, let alone enjoy it before.

Toni Morrison

#6. Yoga is a metaphor for life. You have to take it really slowly. You can't rush. You can't skip to the next position. You find yourself in very humiliating situations, but you can't judge yourself. You just have to breathe, and let go. It is a workout for your mind, your body and your soul.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#8. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody would hear you, and you couldn't expect anyone to find you.

Haruki Murakami

#9. Nobility is expensive, nonproductive, and parasitic, siphoning away too much of society's energy to satisfy its frivolous cravings.

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#10. In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as yet one more poison to leach into water tables: careless people, polluting even from the tomb.

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#11. In the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

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#12. We may be undermined by our survival instincts, honed over eons to help us deny, defy, or ignore catastrophic portents lest they paralyze us with fright.

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#13. Paranormalists, however, insist that our minds are transmitters that, with special effort, can focus like lasers to communicate across great distances, and even make things happen. That may seem far-fetched, but it's also a definition of prayer.

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#14. For years, I have been looking for a way to look at the whole global environmental situation, which I have the privilege and burden of covering. And I wanted to give people a way to do something about it.

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#15. Embryonic stem cell research is legal in America, and nothing in the administration's current policy affects that legality; 400 lines are currently being used to conduct embryonic stem cell research, both in the private sector and by the Federal Government.

Roger Wicker

#16. Is this what love feels like?" he whispered to her. "I don't like it, my Beth. It hurts too much.

Jennifer Ashley

#17. Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. Back above ground, like robotic versions of the mosques and minarets that grace the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus, Houston's petroscape of domed white tanks and silver fractioning towers spreads along the banks of its Ship Channel.

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#19. If you ignore little things, they become big problems.

Rohinton Mistry

#20. Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

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#21. Without us, Earth will abide and endure; without her, however, we could not even be.

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#22. Puszcza, an old Polish word, means "forest primeval." Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, the half-million acres of the Bialowieza Puszcza contain Europe's last remaining fragment of old-growth, lowland wilderness.

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#23. Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.

Alan Weisman

#24. Before artificial nitrogen fertilizer became widely available, the world's population was around 2 billion. When we no longer have it - or if we ever decide to stop using it - that may be the number to which our own naturally gravitates.

Alan Weisman

#25. On out deathbeds we're not going to regret all the work we didn't do. We're going to regret all the sex we didn't have!

John Betjeman

#26. In New York, the European starling - now a ubiquitous avian pest from Alaska to Mexico - was introduced because someone thought the city would be more cultured if Central Park were home to each bird mentioned in Shakespeare.

Alan Weisman

#27. You understand ... just what the Taoists mean when they say that soft is stronger than hard.

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#28. But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.

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#29. If you're looking to make someone happy, maybe you should think about what they'd want, not what you want them to want.

Nicole Williams