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Environment
«Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.»
Author: Dave Foreman
| About:
Environment,
Nature,
Problems
| Keywords:
Cancer, central, central nervous system, environmental, hubris, imagining, nervous, originate, originate in, The central
«We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyones arguing over where they're going to sit»
«The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.»
Author: Morris K. Udall
(Congressman)
| About:
Civilization,
Environment,
Nature,
Survival
| Keywords:
options
«There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.»
«The way you can go to Paris or Beijing and everywhere there's a McDonald's hamburger, this is the ecological quivalent of franchised life-forms. Every place is the same place. Kudzu. Zebra Mussels. Water Hyacinths. Starlings. Burger Kings.The local natives, anything unique gets squeezed out.The only biodiversity we're going to have left is Coke versus Pepsi.We're landscaping the whole world one stupid mistake at a time.»
«Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Profession and professionals
| Keywords:
amateur, amateurism, anti, critical, environmental, merges, merging, patterns, professionalism, Rules of
«The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Environment
| Keywords:
Environments, inheritance, technological, technological innovation
«Transmitted at the speed of light, all events on this planet are simultaneous. In the electric environment of information all events are simultaneous, there is no time or space separating events.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Environment,
Events,
Time
| Keywords:
electric light, separating, simultaneous, speed of light