QUOTABLE QUOTES The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe around us, the less taste we will have for destruction. -- Rachel Carson A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. -- Jackie Robinson Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world. -- Albert Einstein The true measure of all our actions is how long the good in them lasts. -- Queen Elizabeth II Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. -- Mark Twain Some people are so poor, all they have is money. -- Bob Marley Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. -- Henry David Thoreau When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will have peace. -- Jimi Hendrix In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks. -- John Muir Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. -- Gustave Flaubert Never trust an atom. They make up everything. -- Nancy Thayer Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesn’t make a corporation a terrorist. -- Winona Laduke Happiness, not in another place, but this place…not for another hour, but this hour. -- Walt Whitman If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. -- Loren Eiseley Everything that happens…shows beyond mistake that you can’t shut out the world…you must mingle with it, and make the best of it, and make the best of yourself into the bargain. -- Charles Dickens You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States. -- Spike Milligan Electricity is really just organized lightning. -- George Carlin They always say times changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. -- Andy Warhol I find television very educating. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. -- Jane Goodall |