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Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
Jared Diamond
When there is no feeling of accomplishment children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.
Joseph Whitney
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.
Jared Diamond
For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental problems do constrain human societies, but the societies' responses also make a difference.
Jared Diamond
It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.
Pyotr Kropotkin
To lovers of adventure and novelty, Africa displays a most ample field.
James Rennell
Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.
Peter Gould
Most of us go through this journey of grief at different speeds
Louise Suzanne Boyd
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Ellsworth Huntington
...a redoubtable alchemy was at work behind impenetrable veils as the forest prepared its nocturnal mysteries.
Julien Gracq
Science is often misrepresented as ‘the body of knowledge acquired by performing replicated controlled experiments in the laboratory.’ Actually, science is something broader: the acquisition of reliable knowledge about the world.
Jared Diamond
...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectacle. Obliged to live as appendages of the market and of capital accumulation rather than as expressive beings, the realm of freedom shrinks before the awful logic and the hollow intensity of market involvements
David Harvey