"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."

Environment, Isolation, Memory, Night, Nature

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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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"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Environment, Nature, Work, Industry, Speculation

"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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"It is absolutely certain that we must act to protect nature much more efficiently than ever before. Tomorrow " when mankind will step forward to a totally uncertain future " will be too late."

Eraldo Banovac, Croatian Scientist

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"We need to consciously remember that we have more responsibility to protect our planet, because without it we have nowhere else to live."

Gift Gugu Mona, South African Motivational Speaker

Environment, Responsibility, Earth, Sustainability

"Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. He is producing something to eat, which makes him somewhat independent of the grocery business, but he is also enlarging, for himself, the meaning of food and the pleasure of eating."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Environment, Nature, Growth, Food

"It never occurred to us that the Earth itself might have been unyielding."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Environment, Earth, Nature, Reality

"The most exemplary nature is that of the topsoil. It is very Christ-like in its passivity and beneficence, and in the penetrating energy that issues out of its peaceableness. It increases by experience, by the passage of seasons over it, growth rising out of it and returning to it, not by ambition or aggressiveness. It is enriched by all things that die and enter into it. It keeps the past, not as history or as memory, but as richness, new possibility. Its fertility is always building up out of death into promise. Death is the bridge or the tunnel by which its past enters its future."

Wendell Berry, American Poet

Environment, Nature, Growth, Death, Renewal

"I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Environment, Future, Regret, Wisdom, Truth

"The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"Your planet's immune system is trying to get rid of you."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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Explore more quotes by Albert Camus

"But memory is less disposed to compromise."

Memory

"The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself."

Life

"I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say."

Struggle

"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."

Diplomacy

"But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."

Authenticity

"Don't lies in the end put us on the path to truth? And don't my stories, true or false, point to the same conclusion? Don't they have the same meaning? So, what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in either case, they signify what I have been and what I am? One can sometimes see more clearly in a person who is lying than in one who is telling the truth. Like light, truth dazzles. Untruth, on the other hand, is a beautiful dusk that enhances everything."

Truth

"It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."

Happiness

"O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us!" A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!"

Fate

"For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."

Despair

"Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."

Life