Iron Quotes - Page 24

I prefer to work out alone. It enables me to concentrate on the lessons that the Iron has for me.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

I would like the [film] industry to be more aware of what they're doing to influence people for good and for bad. There's no doubt that we're affected by our environment

You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

It's true that private enterprise is extremely flexible, But its only good within very narrow limits. If private enterprise isn't held in an iron grip it gives birth to people who are no better than beasts, those stock-exchange people with greedy appetites beyond restraint.

Today we're dumping 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the environment, and tomorrow we will dump more, and there is no effective worldwide response. Until we start sharply reducing global-warming pollution, I will feel that I have failed.

Like a shadow that does not permit us to jump over it, but moves with us to maintain its proper distance, pollution is nature's answer to culture. When we have learned to recycle pollution into potent information, we will have passed over completely into the new cultural ecology.

By seeing the otherness in that which is most unfamiliar, we can learn to see it too in that which at first seemed merely ordinary. If wilderness can do this - if it can help us perceive and respect a nature we had forgotten to recognize as natural - then it will become part of the solution to our environmental dilemmas rather than part of the problem.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

It's kind of ironic when I broke in at 17, I was told I was too small, too slow and I wouldn't make the NHL

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

The second mouse gets the cheese!

It gave a tremendous level of self-confidence, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment.

The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

Guilt upon the conscience, like rust upon iron, both defiles and consumes it, gnawing and creeping into it, as that does which at last eats out the very heart and substance of the metal.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.

If you embrace moderation, eat whole foods instead of junk, live within your physical, monetary, and environmental budget rather than constantly exceeding it, you will lose weight, tread more lightly on the planet, and gain satisfaction from these things.

I might have preferred iron - but bronze will do. It won't rust. This time I hope, the head will stay on.

As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.