Ecotechnology Quotes & Sayings

The wise individual doesn't get too attached to any of life's pleasures, knowing that wonderful science is hard at work proving it's bad for him. — Bill Vaughan

A Prince should esteem the great, but must not make himself odious to the people. — Niccolo Machiavelli

When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide, His Majesty displays the pretensions and naive selfishness of an Italian who considers that his charm and good looks will enable him to get away with anything. — Adam Hochschild

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together. — Jim Robbins

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved. — Charles Lindbergh

The bourgeois are other people. — Jules Renard