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“The lessons of rocks, stars,and life are clear. To understand Earth, you must divorce yourself for the inconsequential temporal or spacial scale of human life. We live on a single tiny world in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies, each with a hundred billion stars. Similarly, we live day by day in a cosmos aged hundreds of billions of days. If you seek meaning and purpose in the cosmos, you will not find it in any privileged moment or place tied to human existence.”
― Robert m hazen, The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

“It would be wonderful if all the salmon we eat could be wild. But as one marine ecologist said to me recently, to continue to eat large wild fish at the rate we've been eating them we would need "four or five" oceans to support the crrent human population.”
― Paul Greenberg, Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food

“The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929”
― John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed