Maathai Timeline Quotes & Sayings

Taste! It doesn't exist. An artist makes beautiful things without being aware of it. — Edgar Degas

In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions. — Eric Hoffer

Photography is art when it's used by an artist. — Ruth Bernhard

At last, the luminous match was struck and the day was lit. — Dorit Rabinyan

Studying Sol's interior by looking for analogous patterns on its incandescent face is known as helioseismology, an active - if largely unpronounceable - research area that uses sound as a probe of our home star. — Seth Shostak

When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar. — William Hazlitt

To study its effect on a living, struggling human body, he meant. To do that, you would need the right combination of hospital facilities, BSL-4 facilities, dedicated and expert professionals, and circumstances. You couldn't do it during the next outbreak at a mission clinic in an African village. You would need to bring Ebola virus into captivity - into a research situation, under highly controlled scrutiny - and not just in the form of frozen samples. You would need to study a raging infection inside somebody's body. That isn't easy to arrange. He added: "We haven't had an Ebola patient yet in the US." But for everything that happens, there is a first time. — David Quammen

Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse. — Mahatma Gandhi

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away. — Ingo Molnar

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon. — Scarlett Thomas

That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes. — James Alan Gardner

Still screaming. As if the stars give a shit. — Chuck Palahniuk

There is only one rule by which to judge if God is near us or is far away - the rule that God's word is giving us today: everyone concerned for the hungry, the naked, the poor, for those who have vanished in police custody, for the tortured, for prisoners, for all flesh that suffers, has God close at hand. We have the ability, we have the means, and we have the capacity to eliminate hunger from the face of the earth. We need only the will. — John F. Kennedy

I saw the animal's body tense expectantly as he saw the treat in my palm. Unfortunately, it seemed in question as to whether the attraction was the biscuit or my hand. — Lisa Kleypas

Jealousy is inconsolable because it cannot know the beloved — Mason Cooley