Topper Shutt quotes

“I try and remind our viewers that climate is always in a state of flux and yes, the world has warmed over the last 25 years but claiming that Katrina is a product of global warming is absurd. We have had much stronger hurricanes hit the United States in the past, the Labor Day or Keys hurricane of 1935 and Camille in 1969 to name just two. There is much more development now on our shores.”
-- Topper Shutt

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“Global warming is such a politically charged issue that we are losing our perspective on the issue and more importantly losing an open forum from which to discuss the issue. If we lose the right or comfort level to openly discuss and debate this issue we will not be able to tackle it efficiently and economically.”
-- Topper Shutt

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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.

“I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.”

“A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.”

“The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.”

“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”

“Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without”

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!”

“I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.”

“When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.181, Macmillan

“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”