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Humans Quotes - Page 65

Capitalism, as practiced, is a financially profitable, non-sustainable aberration in human development.

Paul Hawken, Amory B. Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins (1999). “Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution”, p.5, Earthscan

Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!

Paul Celan (1980). “Paul Celan: poems”

There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

"African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago.

Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.71, Hachette UK

Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.

"'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

Human problems are complex. If something isn't complex it doesn't qualify as problematic. Very simple bad things are not worth troubling ourselves about.

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “All the Trouble in the World: The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty”, p.14, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

She's a sort of human vampire-bat

P. G. Wodehouse (2016). “Expecting Jeeves”, p.47, Courier Dover Publications

Of all the things that human beings did together, the sexual act was the one with the most various of reasons.

P.D. James (2012). “The Skull Beneath the Skin: A Cordelia Gray Mystery”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.

Os Guinness (2014). “Renaissance: The Power of the Gospel However Dark the Times”, p.26, InterVarsity Press

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

Source: www.counterpunch.org