#lists

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#concern #culture #environmentalists #kind #landscape

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#far #general #general rule #go #hands

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#around #baggage #bring #cultural #down

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#amsterdam #avoiding #being #bell #concept

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#forever #forgotten #lasts #lists #need

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#context #everything #historical #important #interest

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#foundations #fundamentalists #i #our #question

One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs. ↗

— Dan Rather

#important roles #journalists #most #our #roles

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls. ↗

— Dan Rather

#government #journalists #opinion #opinion polls #polls

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

#blamed #considered #environmentalists #everything #lowest