Odum Eugene Quotes & Sayings

If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. — David Foster Wallace

More people worship the rising than the setting sun, — Tom Holland

In recent years it has become impossible to talk about man's relation to nature without referring to "ecology" ... such leading scientists in this area as Rachel Carson, Barry Commoner, Eugene Odum, Paul Ehrlich and others, have become our new delphic voices ... so influential has their branch of science become that our time might well be called the "Age of Ecology". — Rachel Carson

Action to me is something very fun to shoot. — Christopher McQuarrie

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have. — Eugene P. Odum

As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you. — Bobby Davro

The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term. — Eugene Odum

It is strongly suspected that a NEWTON or SHAKESPEARE excels other mortals only by a more ample development of the anterior cerebral lobes, by having an extra inch of brain in the right place. — Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

The Pacific coral reef, as a kind of oasis in a desert, can stand as an object lesson for man who must now learn that mutualism between autotrophic and heterotrophic components, and between producers and consumers in the societal realm, coupled with efficient recycling of materials and use of energy, are the keys to maintaining prosperity in a world of limited resources. — Eugene Odum

legislatures at different levels of government, researchers, journalists, and judges involved in one or more aspects of the process. Each of these actors (either individual or corporate) has potentially different values/interests, perceptions of the situation, and policy preferences.
2. This process usually involves time spans of a decade or more, as that is the minimum duration of most policy cycles, from emergence of a problem through sufficient experience with implementation to render a reasonably fair evaluation of a program's impact (Kirst and Jung 1982; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith 1993). A number of studies suggest that periods of twenty to forty years may be required to obtain a reasonable — Paul A. Sabatier

We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them. — Eugene Odum

Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate. — Eugene Odum

God is more than able to meet our every need. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys! — Garth Stein

I got into university to study graphic design, and I got into drama school as well, so I had the choice whether I wanted to go down the sensible route or if I wanted to become an actor. — Chris Geere