The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. —Ralph Nader More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy. It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more energy than we could ever use in just about eight minutes. And it's wireless. —William McDonough More about this quote Tags: science physics sun nuclear energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
This, finally, is the punch line of our two hundred years on the Great Plains: we trap out the beaver, . . . infect the Blackfeet and the Hidatsa and the Assiniboin, . . . suck up the buffalo, bones and all; kill off nations of elk and wolves and cranes and prairie chickens and prairie dogs; dig up the gold and rebury it in vaults someplace else; ruin the Sioux and Cheyenne and Arapaho and Crow and Kiowa and Comanche; kill Crazy Horse, kill Sitting Bull; . . . plow the topsoil until it blows to the ocean; ship out the wheat, ship out the cattle; dig up the earth itself and burn it in power plants . . . ; dismiss the small farmers, empty the little towns; drill the oil and the natural gas and pipe it away; dry up the rivers and the springs, deep-drill for irrigation water as the aquifer retreats. And in return we condense unimaginable amounts of treasure into weapons buried beneath the land that so much treasure came from — weapons for which our best hope might be that we will someday take them apart and throw them away, and for which our next-best hope certainly is that they remain humming away under the prairie, absorbing fear and maintenance, unused, forever. —Ian Frazier More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whenever there's one of these bogus shortages, the oil companies give you those stupid brochures, "Fifty Ways to Save Energy." They spill 80 million gallons in Alaska and they want you to go to the bathroom in the dark. —Jay Leno More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
According to some commercials, driving an SUV means you support terrorists. The answer is the hybrid gas-electric car, which only supports terrorists when going uphill. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding. —Steven Wright More about this quote Tags: God humor civilization speed Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Among politicians and businessmen, "pragmatism" is the current term for "to hell with our children. —Edward Abbey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We haven't accepted — we can't really believe — that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness. —Wendell Berry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instant gratification is not fast enough. —Suzanne Vega More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake . . . but absolute personal freedom, mobility, privacy. It is the instinct which drove America to the Pacific, all through the nineteenth century, the desire to be able to find a restaurant open in case you want a sandwich, to be a free agent, live by one's own rules. —Joan Didion More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you know there's a road that goes down to Mexico and all the way to Panama? And maybe all the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside? Yes! You and I, Sal, we'd dig the whole world with a car like this because, man, the road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go — right? —Jack Kerouac More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed . . . by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. —Roland Barthes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the Baemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the center of the village, alone and unfettered. All work ceases, and every man, woman, and child in the village gathers in a large circle around the accused individual. Then each person in the tribe speaks to the accused, one at a time, about all the good things the person . . . has done in his lifetime. All his positive attributes, good deeds, strengths, and kindnesses are recited carefully and at length. The tribal ceremony often lasts several days. At the end, the tribal circle is broken, a joyous celebration takes place, and the person is symbolically and literally welcomed back into the tribe. —Alice Walker More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People hurt other people the most when they're trying to kill their own pain, real or imagined. —Frank J. Page More about this quote Tags: people pain hurt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. —Indira Gandhi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email