Ems Quotes - Page 2

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for years.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

Wilderness is a place where the wild potential is fully expressed, a diversity of living and nonliving beings flourishing according to their own sorts of order. In ecology we speak of "wild systems." When an ecosystem is fully functioning, all the members are present at the assembly. To speak of wilderness is to speak of wholeness. Human beings came out of that wholeness, and to consider the possibility of reactivating membership in the Assembly of All Beings is in no way regressive.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

I even went so far as to become a Southern Baptist for a while, until I realized that they didn't hold 'em under long enough.

Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.

There are three types of biomimicry - one is copying form and shape, another is copying a process, like photosynthesis in a leaf, and the third is mimicking at an ecosystem's level, like building a nature-inspired city.

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.

Treat your body like a temple, not a woodshed. The mind and body work together. Your body needs to be a good support system for the mind and spirit. If you take good care of it, your body can take you wherever you want to go, with the power and strength and energy and vitality you will need to get there.

Be more than you seem to be.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

You have to rely on your support system. Growing up, I always thought it was a sign of weakness to ask for help, but now I realize it's really a sign of strength to say, 'I need help, I can't do it all.'

Turn off your televisions. Ignore the Newt-Mitt-Rick- Barack reality show. It is as relevant to your life as the gossip on “Jersey Shore.” The real debate, the debate raised by the Occupy movement about inequality, corporate malfeasance, the destruction of the ecosystem, and the security and surveillance state, is the only debate that matters.

Got that super soaker pussy pop like cola coka. Plus it's tighter than a choker, got em smilin like the joker.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

In the animal kingdom, the rule is, eat or be eaten; in the human kingdom, define or be defined.

I'm lucky to have a great support system in my friends and some of my family. If you have those people that you trust, go ahead and fall back into them and let them be your hammock and cocoon and let them embrace you.

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.