Greying_Geezer's Quotes Page #2

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The order of Fungi is still Chaos, a scandal of art, no botanist knowing what is a Species and what is a Variety.

Linnaeus  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

To use the world well, to be able to stop wasting it and our time in it, we need to relearn our being in it.

Ursula Le Guin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Our normal waking consciousness is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.

William James  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species becomes at doing the things they need to survive.

Charles Darwin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.

William Bateson  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The human sense of smell is extraordinary. Our eyes can distinguish several million colours, our ears can distinguish half a million tones, but our noses can distinguish well over a trillion different odours. Humans can detect virtually all volatile chemicals ever tested.

Merlin Sheldrake  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

What’s astonishing is the gulf between what we expect to find and what we find when we actually look.

Merlin Sheldrake  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The country [Canada] is not entitled to nine [Supreme Court] judges giving their own views; the country is entitled to nine judges giving their views after listening to the views of their eight other colleagues.

Bertha Wilson  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

Women in Canada are not walking around this country in a state of constant consent to sexual activity unless and until they say No or offer resistance to anyone who targets them for sexual activity.

Catherine Anne Fraser  Famous Quote

added 2 years ago

You have every right to be an idiot. What you don't have the right to do is you don't have the right to harass shopkeepers, you don't have the right to scare people away from downtown and from those stores at their busiest time of year, and you don't have the right to expose your children to this. This is flagrant behaviour that puts other people at risk … we [city Council] have far better things we should be doing with our time than dealing with these people [CoVID-19 anti-mask protestors].

Naheed Nenshi  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

There is a clear message that is coming through. This [CoVID-19] is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Rochelle Walensky  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Reverend Michael Coren  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The socon [social conservative] Bible seems to have had the references to forgiveness and gentleness expunged somewhere along the line, and Jesus has become the Lord of Nastiness rather than the Prince of Peace.”

Reverend Michael Coren  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I can’t believe I’ve ever seen or heard of such a despicable, disgusting sense of entitlement and lack of a moral compass. [Referring to a top casino executive and his wife who flew from Vancouver by commercial flight and chartered aircraft 2200 km to Beaver Creek, ignoring mandatory quarantine requirements, to jump the queue for COVID-19 vaccinations. Beaver Creek is a First Nations community of 80, given vaccine priority because of its remoteness near the Alaska border.]

Mike Farnworth  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The memory of pain falls drop by drop upon our heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Poetry is a weapon. It is an instrument of social change...and poetry is one of the most political arts out there because it demands that you rupture and destabilize the language in which you're working with. Inherently, you are pushing against the status quo. And so for me, it's always existed in that tradition of truth-telling.

Amanda Gorman  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

H.G. Wells  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I’m not telling anyone else what to do, but there is a risk when you are vocal about these things and don’t practise as you preach, then you will become criticised for that and what you are saying won’t be taken seriously. [Asked about celebrities who talk about the climate emergency while flying around the world.]

Greta Thunberg  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

I don’t think it’s selfish to have children: it is not the people who are the problem, it is our behaviour.

Greta Thunberg  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Worstward Ho!)

Samuel Beckett  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

People really wanted to hear me say that what they were considering [with regard to activities during the COVID-19 pandemic] was okay, no matter what that was. It just doesn’t work that way. The most important message was limit your contact to just a very few people.

Bonnie Henry  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

The son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.

C.S. Lewis  Famous Quote

added 3 years ago

For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed.

Janette Sadik-Khan  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

Trump does not picture his role as being a leader; he sees his role as going on national television and criticizing the leadership of others.

David Frum  Famous Quote

added 4 years ago

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