"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."

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"Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."

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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Environment, Change, City, Time, Observation

"It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

Environment, Awareness, Time, Warning, Responsibility

"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

Michael Pollan, American Educator

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"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."

Carl Andre, American Artist

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"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."

Cormac McCarthy, American Writer

Environment, Summer, Nature, Night, Atmosphere

"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."

Steven Magee, British Author

Environment, Survival, Science, Warning

"We are such small, stupid things. For most of my life I thought of nature as the stupid thing: Blind, animal, destructive. We, the humans, were clean and smart and in control: we had wrestled the rest of the world into submission, battered it down, pinned it to a glass slide and the pages of The Bool of Shhh."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Environment, Nature, Human, Control, Truth

"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."

Steven Magee, British Author

Environment, Truth, Silence, Warning

"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."

Steven Magee, British Author

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"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

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"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

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"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

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"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city."

"It's no use talking about the 'Doomsday Clock' when it has already chimed. But, alas, the chimes fell on deaf ears."

"Avoid living in new homes and working in new offices due to the high levels of chemical out-gassing that they exhibit during their first year."

"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."

"A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous."

"Summer was full on and the nights hot. It was like lying in warm syrup there in the dark under the viaduct, in the steady whine of gnats and nightbugs."

"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength."

"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence."

"We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with electrified glass that emits electromagnetic intereference (EMI) does to the global environment."

Explore more quotes by Albert Camus

"To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."

"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

"Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better."

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it."

"Don't let them tell us stories."

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

"One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

"Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves."

"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."