FOUR BEFORE TWELVE

 

“Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie

every environmental problem we face today”

 

~ Jacques Yves Cousteau ~

 

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FENÊTRE

 

“The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history,

stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book,

to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly,

but living poetry like the leaves of a tree,

which precede flowers and fruit ~

not a fossil earth, but a living earth;

compared with whose great central life

all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic.”

 

~ Henry David Thoreau ~

 

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CIRCLE GAME

 

“Humanity is the refuse of spirit.”

 

~James Lendall Basford ~

 

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THE LIBATION

 

“A gender-equal society would be one where

the word ‘gender’ does not exist:

where everyone can be themselves.”

 

~ Gloria Steinem ~

 

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‘TWAS A TIME

 

“That is what you are. That’s what you all are…

All of you young people who served in the war.

You are a lost generation.”

 

~ Gertrude Stein ~

 

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THE FRAGMENT OF A TEAR

 

“Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates

the number of stupid individuals in circulation.”

 

~ Carlo M. Cipolla ~

 

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QUE SAIS-JE?

 

“Je pense, donc je suis.”

 

~ René Descartes ~

 

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WITHOUT A COUNTRY

 

“The evils of capitalism are as real

as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”

 

~ Martin Luther King Jr. ~

 

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THE CRYSTAL BALL

 

“Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.”

 

~ Roger von Oech ~

 

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ONLY EVER NOW

 

“Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now.”

 

~ James Clavell ~

 

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