Allen Hershkowitz quotes

“Future generations are going to look at the way we make toilet paper as one of the greatest excesses of our age. Making toilet paper from virgin wood is a lot worse than driving Hummers in terms of global warming pollution.”
-- Allen Hershkowitz

Source : "American taste for soft toilet roll 'worse than driving Hummers'" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2009.

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“Small things lead to big changes.”
-- Allen Hershkowitz

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“No single initiative by itself can solve the climate crisis.”
-- Allen Hershkowitz

#Climate Quotes #Initiative Quotes #Crisis Quotes

“The ecological challenges we face are the result of billions of ecologically ignorant decisions made by billions of people over centuries. To address the climate crisis, we now need billions of people to make ecologically intelligent decisions.”
-- Allen Hershkowitz

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“Nothing is too small to matter.”
-- Allen Hershkowitz

#Matter Quotes

“God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.”

“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”

“The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.”

“I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.”

Source : Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2009.

“I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson”

“I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.”

“Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.”

“The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.”

“The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.”

Source : Aaron Copland (1980). “Music and Imagination”, p.43, Harvard University Press

“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”