"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."

Nature, Evolution, Forget, Reason

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"We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true."

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"All art is but imitation of nature."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"Can I tell from the twilight from which the world is built that I am a sunrise in this life?"

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The sun had burned through and the day had gone from dull to dazzling, yet in the west blask-satin thunderheads continued to stack up. It was as if night has burst a blood-vessel in the sky over there."

Stephen King, American Author

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"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We ran as if to meet the moon."

Robert Frost, American Poet

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"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series."

Work

"We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work."

Work

"Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified."

Help

"One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor."

Kiss

"The pressure isn't on my brain, but on my mouth. I realized Sam Malone said very little, he spoke in little sentences. Which is much more comfortable for me for some reason."

Pressure

"We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet."

Being

"How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question."

Life

"We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group."

Environment

"We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil."

Environment

"The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making."

Environment