Environmentalism Sustainability Quotes & Sayings

Spent time-like a spent bullet-tells us much about its "processor." for we see not only the residual slug, but indicators of how spent time is grooved by a man's soul, a reliable indicator of what a man is like. — Neal A. Maxwell

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? — Andy Couturier

Privacy is like sleep - something you don't appreciate until you have to go without it. — Helen McCloy

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. — Andy Couturier

How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland. — Karl Marlantes

You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail. — Darcey Bussell

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. — Andy Couturier

He'd noticed that his grandson was working too hard, and he was the one who told him about the marbles. He told it this way. He said that the average life span for men was around seventy-five years. That meant thirty-nine hundred Saturdays - to play when you were a kid and to be with your family when you got older and wiser." "I see," I said. "Or to play once you got older. Or even to give lectures to anyone who'll listen." "Shush, Alex. Now, listen. So the grandfather figured out that his grandson, who was forty-three, had about sixteen hundred and sixty Saturdays left in his life. Statistically speaking. So what he did was he bought two large jars and filled them with beautiful cat's-eye marbles. He gave them to his grandson. And he told him that every Saturday, he should take one marble out of the jar. Just one, and just as a reminder that he had only so many Saturdays left, and that they were precious — James Patterson

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.' — Gilbert Hernandez

With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care. — Bjork

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is. — Andy Couturier

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them. — Andy Couturier

I finally understood that I couldn't avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderful
thing, a beautiful thing. — Andy Couturier

What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I'm not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be. — Andy Couturier

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. — Andy Couturier

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money. — Andy Couturier

I know this sounds stupid, but in some ways, the way I look is a drawback. — Tim Daly

I think the reason I do not want to die is because of the things I hope will happen. Yes, that's right. I'm sure that's right. Point a revolver at a tramp, at a wet shivering tramp on the side of the road and say, "I'm going to shoot you", and he will cry, "Don't shoot. Please don't shoot." The tramp clings to life because of the things he hopes will happen. — Roald Dahl

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it. — Andy Couturier