Historical Ecology Quotes & Sayings

I mean every character you totally, you know, the full fiber of the personality is kept in the film, and all of those little moments, all those funny little tidbits are all in there. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

We study the past history, with the conscience of the present environmental changes; we can only predict the future ecological changes, by emergence of the past into the present. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How did I know how to do that to a body? Is that what you want to know?"
The boy, holding the tea tray, did not reply.
"I told you. It's exactly the same as cooking. I happen to know how to read."
"The library has stuff on things like that?"
The girl picked up the poker and pushed a maple log back into the fire. "The library has everything. — Laird Koenig

We loved them. We hated them. We wanted to be them. How tall they were, how lovely, how fair. Their long, graceful limbs. Their bright white teeth. Their pale, luminous skin, which disguised all seven blemishes of the face. Their odd but endearing ways, which ceased to amuse - their love for A.I. sauce and high, pointy-toed shoes, their funny, turned-out walk, their tendency to gather in each other's parlors in large, noisy groups and stand around talking, all at once, for hours. Why, we wondered, did it never occur to them to sit down? They seemed so at home in the world. So at ease. They had a confidence that we lacked. And much better hair. So many colors. And we regretted that we could not be more like them. — Julie Otsuka

The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation. — Frederick William Robertson

I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly

Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world. — Jefferson Han

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos. — Ursula Nordstrom

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value. — Gabriela Sabatini

For he will do
As he do do
And there's no doing anything about it! — T. S. Eliot

In my pursuit of historical ecology, I find the pleasure of reading history. — Lailah Gifty Akita

God impressed me with this a long time ago: 'Roddy, I will never do anything through you until I have done it to you!'."

~R. Alan Woods [1998] — R. Alan Woods

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. — Katherine Paterson

Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are. — Audre Lorde

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh ... was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores. — William C. Roberts

The scar on my chest, the beating of my heart, and the mountains that fostered my appreciation for the cold, hard, natural world - these were the few things that mattered. — Daniel Wallock