Wallace Smith Broecker quotes

“Climate is an angry beast and we are poking at it with sticks”
-- Wallace Smith Broecker

#Sticks Quotes #Climate Quotes #Beast Quotes

“The paleoclimate record shouts to us that, far from being self-stabilizing, the Earth's climate system is an ornery beast which overreacts even to small nudges.”
-- Wallace Smith Broecker

#Self Quotes #Records Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.118, Penguin

“But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.”

“The warnings about global warming have been extremely clear for a long time. We are facing a global climate crisis. It is deepening. We are entering a period of consequences.”

Source : Al Gore (2007). “The Assault on Reason”, p.230, Penguin

“Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]”

“...the Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia apparently cherry-picked Russian climate data.”

“I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again”

“Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.”

Source : Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.50, Harper Collins

“During a chess tournament a master must envisage himself as a cross between an ascetic monk and a beast of prey.”

“Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.”

“Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.”