Quips

“If a river can alter its course over a lifetime, so can we.”
Ever-optimistic ethical clothes retailer Howies “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain “Widening roads to overcome congestion is like loosening our belt to solve obesity.”
Former mayor of Milwaukee, John Norquist “The most political act we do on a daily basis is to eat.”
Sustainable agriculture guru Professor Jules Pretty “Life is too short to eat badly.”
Author – and now Italian deli owner – Jeanette Winterson “Eat and drink, but waste not by excess; verily He loves not the excessive.”
The Koran “A 125 lb woman drives an SUV down to the nearby commercial centre to drop off the videos and pick up a coffee. The Toyota SUV weighs 44 times her weight. Imagine the way royalty was carried on a throne in the ancient times by people. Imagine her being carried by 44 of herself on a platform ... to take the videos back and to pick up the coffee. This helps visualise the absurdity of it all.”
Mobility designer Dan Sturges “[Climate change] hasn’t registered in our gut. It isn’t part of our culture ... Where are the books? The plays? The goddamn operas?”
Bill McKibben, author of The Death of Nature “There is no shame in not knowing: the shame lies in not finding out.”
Afghan proverb “Pursue what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Anonit

17 June 2005