John Gummer quotes

John Gummer quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.”
-- John Gummer

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“Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.”
-- John Gummer

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“Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever”
-- John Gummer

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“It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.”
-- John Gummer

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“Eighty percent of the people of Britain want more money spent on public transport â€” in order that other people will travel on the buses so that there is more room for them to drive their cars.”
-- John Gummer

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“A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them”
-- John Gummer

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“Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.”
-- John Gummer

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“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes â€“ something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean huntersâ€™ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”

Source : "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.
“Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.”
“Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.”
“The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge, James A. Casada (1994). “America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales”, p.9, Univ of South Carolina Press
“People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.”
“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”
“Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.”
“My paintings are the last paintings one can make.”
“Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.”

Source : Adam Braun (2015). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.171, Simon and Schuster
“Iâ€™m doing pretty well. If you donâ€™t get married, you canâ€™t get divorced. Why couldnâ€™t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?”

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