Daniel Botkin quotes

“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
-- Daniel Botkin

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“Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.”
-- Daniel Botkin

Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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“Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.”
-- Daniel Botkin

Source : Daniel Botkin (2012). “The Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered”, p.324, Oxford University Press

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“We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.”

“Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.221, Macmillan

“In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.”

“I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.”

“War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.”

“Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

“How can we say nobody's perfect if there is no perfect to compare to? Perfection implies that there really is a right and wrong way to be. And what type of perfection is the best type? Moral perfection? Aesthetic? Physiological? Mental?”

“She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.”