Natalie Jeremijenko quotes

“Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

Source : "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

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“In Yellowstone National Park there are more ‘do not feed the animals’ signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

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“This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

Source : "The Q&A: Natalie Jeremijenko, thingker". More Intelligent Life Interview, www.economist.com. September 20, 2010.

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“We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

Source : "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register." by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

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“The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

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“The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.”
-- Natalie Jeremijenko

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“According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.”

“Is it an original idea? Or is it something where you're literally a creative collagist? You're taking pieces of the world that you see around you and that are inside of you and put them together in a way that you see fit.”

“From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.”

Source : Abolqasem Ferdowsi (2016). “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings”, p.87, Penguin

“I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.”

“I thought I was gonna be an attorney, so I went to Dartmouth and I was a government major and I minored in environmental policy, and I didn't do anything academically around the arts.”

“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

“So it is fair to ask, why not address the threat of climate change when it is still possible? Asad Rehman, of the international environmental group Friends of the Earth, who was in New York for the climate march, told me, “If we can find the trillions [of dollars] we’re finding for conflict whether there’s been the invasion in Iraq or Afghanistan or now the conflict in Syria, then we can find the kind of money that’s required for the transformation that will deliver clean, renewable energy.””

“CAFE standards have little impact on greenhouse gas emissions, and the environmental benefits of increasing CAFE standards are frequently overstated. Their impact on human health is more certain: CAFE standards have resulted in tens of thousands of deaths since their adoption.”

“Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.”

“As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.”