Top 100 Ehrlich Quotes
#1. Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love.
Saul Bellow
#2. According to population expert Dr. Paul Ehrlich, we should currently be experiencing a dystopian dreamscape where "survivors envy the dead," which seems true only when I look at Twitter. Yet
Chuck Klosterman
#3. A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#4. Islamic jihadists making sacrifices tended to create gruesome headlines.--Titus Ray, Chapter 29
Luana Ehrlich
#5. Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#6. My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
Bob Ehrlich
#7. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.
Gretel Ehrlich
#8. The lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life.
Gretel Ehrlich
#9. Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.
Gretel Ehrlich
#10. Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.
Bob Ehrlich
#11. Every footstep we take, every action has a consequence. We breathe in weather, but we breathe out CO2. We're responsible for weather and for climate.
Gretel Ehrlich
#12. There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#13. Our urge to undo things must come from an idea that what we find in the natural world isn't good enough, that our tinkering will make it better. Spare us the scandal of improvement, I say.
Gretel Ehrlich
#14. There are substitutes for oil; there is no substitute for fresh water.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#15. People believed what I said was what I believed.
Bob Ehrlich
#16. We're betting, at this place and this time, we have people ready for change in the state of Maryland.
Bob Ehrlich
#17. Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.
Bob Ehrlich
#18. Serving in Congress has been the honor of a lifetime.
Bob Ehrlich
#19. Civic engagement means working to make a difference in the civic life of our communities and developing the combination of knowledge, skills, values and motivation to make that difference. It means promoting the quality of life in a community, through both political and non-political processes.
Thomas Ehrlich
#20. To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#21. We're never all going to agree with each other. We have to learn to value the diversity. It's one of the presumable principles of our government that isn't followed nearly enough - one of the jobs of the majority is to try and make the minority feel comfortable.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#22. The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
Bob Ehrlich
#23. So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#24. Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.
Gretel Ehrlich
#25. Pride is a great energizer for me. --Titus Ray, Chapter 1.
Luana Ehrlich
#27. The retreat and disappearance of glaciers - there are only 160,000 left - means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by glacier, rib by rib, we're living the Fall.
Gretel Ehrlich
#28. The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding.
Gretel Ehrlich
#29. For example, I'm a great fan of pornography, but I don't see any reason not to restrict it so that people walking down the street who hate pornography don't have full color pictures outside of movie theaters. Let them be in a different district. I'm kidding about pornography, but you get the point.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#30. I've never minded finding out what others thought I didn't know. Titus Ray, Chapter 3
Luana Ehrlich
#31. Assumptions can get you killed. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2
Luana Ehrlich
#32. Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
Thomas Ehrlich
#33. What people don't understand about the Arctic is that this isn't just about those other people, those Eskimos that have nothing to do with us. The Arctic drives the climate of the whole globe.
Gretel Ehrlich
#34. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
Bob Ehrlich
#35. There is nothing in nature that can't be taken as a sign of both mortality and invigoration.
Gretel Ehrlich
#36. People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#37. If President Obama has his way, you won't recognize the government, the free market system, or, frankly, America as you once knew it. His admonitions and his audacious policy goals demonstrate very clear motives: equalize, discourage dissent, and become a nation of apologists.
Bob Ehrlich
#39. Most of the scientists I know think civilization is teetering on the brink of a global disaster. They just don't know when it's going to hit. I don't have the answer to that either. I'm scared as hell.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#40. People travel and hunt on the sea ice - in Alaska, they hunt in skin boats for bowhead whales; in Greenland, they hunt with dogsleds. The ice is their highway. The ice is also the ecosystem in which marine mammals and terrestrial animals such as polar bears exist.
Gretel Ehrlich
#41. I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#42. A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected.
Bob Ehrlich
#43. If anything is endemic to Wyoming it is wind. This big room of space is swept out daily, leaving a bone yard of fossils, agates, and carcasses in every stage of decay. Though it was water that initially shaped the state, wind is the meticulous gardener, raising dust and pruning the sage.
Gretel Ehrlich
#44. I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.
Gretel Ehrlich
#45. History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
Gretel Ehrlich
#46. To know something, then, we must be scrubbed raw, the fasting heart exposed.
Gretel Ehrlich
#47. Prayer wasn't a familiar practice in my life. --Titus Ray, Chapter 2
Luana Ehrlich
#49. All my memories are things I gave away, traded for new days after days after days...
Brenna Ehrlich
#50. No one heard about Bill Clinton on his first trip to New Hampshire. I showed Mike Huckabee around the state years before he ran, and no one knew him then, either.
Bob Ehrlich
#51. Doctoring sick calves becomes my sole work. I don't even notice when or where the new ones were born. My days and nights are lived in the herd, and an intimacy blossoms as it does when one attends any gravely ill being, after talk becomes impossible or unnecessary to exchange.
Gretel Ehrlich
#52. I promised her an interesting life and good food, and the rest is history.
Bob Ehrlich
#53. The main thing is, and of course this is a pedant talking, we should start our education on these issues in kindergarten. Instead of saying, "See Spot run," we ought to say, "See the plant grow in the sun." We ought to explain what runs the weather in the third or fourth grade to start out with.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#54. The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#55. There is an increasing sense of what can be called legal pollution.
Thomas Ehrlich
#56. Thoughtful people of different political philosophies can disagree, but in a very agreeable manner.
Bob Ehrlich
#57. Hales," he purrs quietly with closed eyes, his nose grazing my flesh. "I am so yours, more than I've ever been mine.
Sigal Ehrlich
#58. A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself.
Thomas Ehrlich
#59. I like big, open, spare landscapes. There's lots of room. Nobody bothers you ... I feel as if I can think there.
Gretel Ehrlich
#60. I like to think of the landscape not as a fixed place but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet. To see and know a place is a contemplative act. It means emptying our minds and letting what is there, in all its mulitplicity and endless variety, come in.
Gretel Ehrlich
#61. Art museums are little more than big buildings where rectangular old men, hung on the walls by their backs, wait for young people to come stand in front of them.
Adam Ehrlich Sachs
#62. With taxes, if they aren't working right, we can change them with a stroke of the pen. It's basically a market-type mechanism. People make their own choices. You run the taxes, and you get the results.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#63. I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#64. Now, along with the guns I'd retrieved from my personal storage unit, I felt totally prepared to write a scholarly book on the Middle East.--Titus Ray, Chapter 9
Luana Ehrlich
#65. To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs is to sink into the preliterate parts of ourselves.
Gretel Ehrlich
#66. It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.
Gretel Ehrlich
#67. There's no question at all that the population explosion will come to an end. The two basic choices are it'll come to an end because we control our reproduction, and in many areas we have started to do so, or we'll end up with a high death rate. You have to take a personal moral stand on this.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#68. We can dig ourselves out of the ditch that the progressives and Obama-ites have driven us into.
Bob Ehrlich
#69. I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#70. Fog rolled in like a form of sorrow. To live exiled from a place you have known intimately is to experience sensory deprivation. A wide-awake coma ... The sea was a memory bank into which everything fell and was lost. I dove in but came out empty-handed.
Gretel Ehrlich
#71. I started traveling in the Arctic in 1991, so I experienced the ice in winter and spring. The seasonal sea ice, it has a long season. It starts in September and ends in June.
Gretel Ehrlich
#72. A tree is an aerial garden, a botanical migration from the sea, from those earliest plants, the seaweeds; it is a purchase on crumbled rock, on ground. The human, standing, is only a different upsweep and articulation of cells. How treelike we are, how human the tree.
Gretel Ehrlich
#73. Actually, the problem in the world is that there are too many rich people.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#74. Chinese are already more on board than we are. China is the only country that actually discussed in formal government documents how important it is to control the size of your populations if you're going to limit emissions.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#76. By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#77. Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.
Bob Ehrlich
#78. Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay. The willows, having stood for so long near water, begin to rust. Leaves are verbs that conjugate the seasons.
Gretel Ehrlich
#79. A tree is a thought, an obstruction stopping the flow of wind and light, trapping water, housing insects, birds, and animals, and breathing in and out. How treelike the human, how human the tree.
Gretel Ehrlich
#80. I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tangible. But I do know this: you recognize it when you see it.
Bob Ehrlich
#81. There's all of this stuff where we have so much debate over nonsense; it could be cured if we had a better educational system, if we trained people to really try and look into things on their own. That's a tough thing to do, particularly with the educational system staggering.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#82. To long for love, to have experienced passion's deep pleasure, even once, is to understand the mercilessness of having a human body whose memory rides desire's back unanchored from season to season.
Gretel Ehrlich
#83. We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens.
Bob Ehrlich
#84. I understood why war zones are called 'theaters' because they frame a kind of play acting or, worse, deceit, that can stain a human life forever: the deceit of hate on hearsay - hating an enemy one doesn't know ...
Gretel Ehrlich
#85. Trying to separate the contributions of nature and nurture to an attribute is rather like trying to separate the contributions of length and width to the area of a rectangle, which at first glance also seems easy. When you think about it carefully, though, it proves impossible.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#86. I've always believed the words that came out of my mouth were most comfortable when I'd written them.
Bob Ehrlich
#88. In 2007, I received a National Geographic Expeditions Council grant to go around the top of the world and talk to Arctic people about how they've been impacted by climate change.
Gretel Ehrlich
#89. I designed furniture that pulled apart, folded, and broke down into neat stacks. Since arriving in California, I had moved four times and it looked as if I would move again. Was it the land running under my feet or my feet running over the land?
Gretel Ehrlich
#90. Most pundits regard an election year session as an opportunity for the two parties to frame issues and garner political advantage in advance of the approaching election.
Bob Ehrlich
#91. The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
#92. Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.
Gretel Ehrlich
#93. It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.
Bob Ehrlich
#94. The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before?
Gretel Ehrlich
#95. Leadership is about doing what you know is right - even when a growing din of voices around you is trying to convince you to accept what you know to be wrong.
Bob Ehrlich
#96. When I was your age, I would go to plays all the time, just sit in the darkness and try to take it all in inside me. Contain everything in some corner of my heart so that when I had my shot, it could all come pouring out - all the lights and moments and colour.
Brenna Ehrlich
#97. True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.
Gretel Ehrlich
#98. Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
Bob Ehrlich
#99. It's appropriate to celebrate public service, and the thoughtful people who choose to serve. They symbolize what is good and decent about this historic citizen legislature, and we thank them.
Bob Ehrlich
#100. The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children
Paul R. Ehrlich
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