Carbon Cycle Quotes

#1. The fact that we have been able to perturb the carbon cycle with our industrial revolution is evidence of how vulnerable we are - because when we destroy our environments, we destroy our food and energy supplies. In short, we destroy ourselves.

Annalee Newitz

#2. Just as human activity is upsetting Earth's carbon cycle, our actions are altering the water cycle.

David Suzuki

#3. Unless we decide to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within just a few years from now, our destinies will already be chosen and our path towards hell unalterable as the carbon cycle feedbacks ... kick in one after another.

Mark Lynas

#4. We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

Rob Nixon

#5. Plate tectonics is not all havoc and destruction. The slow movement of continents and ocean floors recycles carbon dioxide dissolved in the oceans back into the atmosphere. Without this slow speed carbon cycle, Earth's temperatures would cool dozens of degrees below your comfort zone.

Seth Shostak

#6. Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Peter Heller

#7. Fossil energy is the worst discovery man ever made, and his disruption of the carbon-oxygen cycle is the greatest of his triumphs over nature. Through thinner and thinner air we labor toward our last end, conquerors finally of even the earth chemistry that created us.

Wallace Stegner

#8. Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

Bob Weir

#9. You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

Jacob Bronowski

#10. You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.

Robert Harris

#11. There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming ... All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.

John Williams

#12. The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

Ramana Maharshi

#13. The president is commander-in-chief of the army and navy and of the state militia when called into the service of the United States. He holds this power in time of peace as well as in time of war.

Charles A. Beard

#14. Lysandra rubbed at her face, then squared her shoulders. "The marsh beasts are easily enraged. Like someone I know." Aelin jabbed the shifter with an elbow, and Lysandra snorted.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. It took six years - about four and half more than Musk had once planned - and five hundred people to make this miracle of modern science and business happen.

Ashlee Vance

#16. When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period.

John Moody

#17. They looked at her quizzically, came at her with assumptions, presumptions, what they believed was intimate knowledge of her. She felt unarmed, by comparison; disadvantaged.

Lorrie Moore

#18. Yuki: "Honda-san ... you'd better stop, or he'll get a swelled head."
Kyo: "Doesn't Shigure already HAVE a swelled head?

Natsuki Takaya

#19. I learned a valuable spiritual lesson in my return to wrestling: God does not give us gifts that He does not intend for us to use.

Shawn Michaels

#20. The most important beauty is not that with which you were born, but the beauty of character which grows through a woman's life and maybe never stops growing.

Oscar De La Renta

#21. When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

Tess Uriza Holthe

#22. Hello, luv," he says through a thick curtain of blue hair. "Hope I'm ... interrupting.

A.G. Howard

#23. The Earth is warming but physical evidence from around the world tells us that human-emitted carbon dioxide has played only a minor role in it. Instead, the mild warming seems to be part of a natural 1,500-year climate cycle (plus or minus 500 years) that goes back at least one million years.

Fred Singer

#24. I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.

Sydney Pollack

#25. Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.

Michele Bachmann

#26. It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world. To our credit as a species, we have turned this obscure scientific fact about carbon cycles into one of the most important political issues of the 21st century.

Annalee Newitz

#27. My father did 90-plus films. He was Spartacus!

Michael Douglas