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This ethic was articulated by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1911 (in a quote often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson): "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
Celebrate Earth Day 2024 with these inspiring sayings about honoring nature and the environment. Share famous quotes from world leaders, activists and writers.
Wendell Erdman Berry (born August 5, 1934) is an American novelist, poet, essayist, environmental activist, cultural critic, and farmer. [1] Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977).
Fry breaks free of the illusion, and quickly writes a story in which he is crushed to death by a bookcase, one riddled with "plot holes and spelling errors". In accordance with the story, the giant brain announces it is leaving Earth "for no raisin" (Fry's misspelling of "reason"), and the people of Earth regain their intelligence. The ...
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” — Robert Montgomery, American actor “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find ...
A complex plot of body-swapping and time travel ensues. It is considered by some people to be the best story in the collection. [2] "Dumb Martian" [3] a satire on racism, featuring an Earthman who buys a Martian wife. "Compassion Circuit" a horror story on the subject of robotics. "Survival" set on a spacecraft marooned in orbit around Mars.
Shatner boldly went where only a few people have gone before. He was joined on his flight by Audrey Powers, Blue Origin’s vice president of mission and flight operations, as well as two paying ...
The Day the Earth Caught Fire: Earth starts hurtling toward the Sun as a result of man's nuclear testing Novel 1964 Eco The Drought: J. G. Ballard: A super-drought evaporates all water on Earth Novel 1964 Eco Greybeard: Brian Aldiss: The human race becomes sterile Novel 1964 Eco Time of the Great Freeze: Robert Silverberg: Another ice age has ...