Yehuda Levi quotes

In North America and Western Europe, ten percent of the population of the world consumes fifty percent of its energy.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Europe #America #Energy

The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Real #Lying #Earth

This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits... . People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Selfish #Lying #Views

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Tree #Sage #Fruit

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Treasure #Should

The beauty of the environment is an important factor in the quality of life.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Important #Quality #Environment

Cities originally surrounded by a wall can produce an urban population cut off from the surrounding fields and from agriculture altogether. At the same time, the greenbelt laws eliminate the possibility of the unchecked expansion of a city into a monstrous megalopolis. If there is a need for additional homes, a new city must be established.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Wall #Home #Cutting

Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
-- Yehuda Levi

#Dust #Nuisance #Vibrations

It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.

Under the guidance of the Reich, Europe would speedily have become unified. Once the Jewish poison had been eradicated, unification would have been an easy matter. France and Italy, each defeated in turn at an interval of a few months by the two Germanic Powers, would have been well out of it. Both would have had to renounce their inappropriate aspirations to greatness. At the same time they would have had to renounce their pretensions in North Africa and the Near East; and that would have allowed Europe to pursue a bold policy of friendship towards Islam. (4th February 1945)

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

Gore speaks to America as if English is its second language; George W. speaks as if English is his second language.

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

In absolute terms, we may have to look at restricting the number of flights people take.

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.

You ask any actor - they'll tell you they'd rather shoot on location because you don't have to invent the energy, the energy is there.