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The more a climate can be created in which neither the English nor the Scots are given cause to resent each other, the better.
Simon Heffer— 1999 Nor Shall My Sword: The Reinventing of England. Pha« nomenologie des Geistes (1807,'The Phenomenology of the Mind') attacked romantic intuitionism. Other works include Enzyklopa« die der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1817, 'Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences'), in which he set out his tripartite system of logic, philosophy of nature and of mind.
A man lives well and happily until he begins to feel unwell. Then he feels worse because the climate allows him no chance of pulling himself togetherand then he dies.
— 1889 Of life in Singapore. From Sea to Sea.
For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington. She was in excellent health, but she said that the climate would do her good.
henry adams— Democracy (1880), Ch. I, first lines
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.
henry adams— Ch. 1. (The Education of Henry Adams (1907))
Prostitution myths justify the existence of prostitution, promote misinformation about prostitution, and contribute to a social climate that exploits and harms not only prostituted women but all women.
melissa farley— "Attitudes toward Prostitution and Acceptance of Rape Myths" in Journal of Applied Social Psychology Vol. 32, issue 9 (2002), p. 1790 - 1796; co-written with A. Cotton, and R. Baron
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
adam ferguson— PART III, SECTION I
Nothing in predictive climate science is more certain than the extinction of many of the world’s mountain-dwelling species.
tim flannery— Chapter 18 (p. 172)
If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilization due to climate change becomes inevitable.
tim flannery— Chapter 22 (p. 209)
Evil reports of a churlish wilderness, a pitiless climate, disease, misery, and death, had heralded the arrival of De Monts. The outlay had been great, the returns small; and when he reached Paris, he found his friends cold, his enemies active and keen.
francis parkman— Pt. II, Ch. 4 Lescarbot and Champlain
...I’m sure lots of people would love to ridicule me when I say this, but it is true: many people die from cold related deaths every winter, and here are studies that say that climate change in certain areas of the world would help those individuals.
dana perino— Press Briefing, October 26, 2007 [2]
With the growing urgency of climate change, we cannot have it both ways. We cannot shout from the rooftops about the dangers of global warming and then turn around and shout even louder about the "dangers" of windmills.
david suzuki— "The beauty of wind farms". New Scientist: p. 20. 2005-04-16. Retrieved on 2007-02-07.
The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies.
— Philosophy of Art (1865)
It was no vain or unintelligent act when, knowing the land, its people and climate, I laid my dear wife and the darling children with myself on the altar for this service.
james hudson taylor— (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Four: Survivors’ Pact. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1984, 363.)
[M]y administration is committed to a leadership role on the issue of climate change.
george w. bush— June 11, 2001. "President Bush Discusses Global Climate Change".
In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.
Anton Chekhov— Act I (Uncle Vanya (1897))
Heaven for climate, Hell for society.
mark twain— Speech to the Acorn Society (1901)also given as: "Heaven for climate, Hell for companionship." (unsourced)
On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:"Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns warm or cold is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.
ilana mercer— "Reincarnation of the Reds," WorldNetDaily.com, December 29, 2006, The Colorado Springs Gazette, January 17, 2007, and The Orange County Register, "The Reds Have Become Greens," January 19, 2007.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.
george orwell— A Clergyman's Daughter, Ch. 5
No one is “born gay.” The idea is ridiculous, but it is symptomatic of our overpoliticized climate that such assertions are given instant credence by gay activists and their media partisans. I think what gay men are remembering is that they were born different .
camille paglia— p. 71 ("No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality")
The inner climate stamps each individual with its character. Every life-form has its own individual anomaly point of health, which makes the orderly reproduction of the species possible. This also explains why the world of parasites increases with fever.
viktor schauberger— Implosion Magazine, No. 71, p. 12 (Callum Coats: Energy Evolution (2000))
Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.
peter singer— Chapter 6, A New Understanding Of Ethics, p. 172
With the growth of the world population, the global climate change and the need for a greater healthy environment, access to water resources has become a crucial condition for the realization of an equitable international order, where the needs of the peoples are effectively addressed. In this regard, the need for international cooperation, including in joint effort with relevant non-state actors, is paramount to ensure water is made available to all without discrimination. Water is a human right, an enabling right, not a mere commodity.
alfred de zayas— Statement by Alfred de Zayas on World Water Day 22 March 2013 [54]
The less we do to address climate change now, the more regulation we will have in the future.
Bill Nye— Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World (2015)
Our economic system, run for profit and waste and based primarily on the extractive industries, is the cause of climate change. We have wasted the earth's treasure and we can no longer exploit it cheaply.
— Vivienne Westwood in:Vivienne Westwood's 10 Steps to Climate Revolution, permaculture.co.uk, 12 September 2012
The main message we want to get out there is that climate change is caused by the rotten economic system.
— Vivienne Westwood in: Hattie Crisell Vivienne Westwood’s Five Most Westwood-y Backstage Quotes, nymag.com, 18 February 2013
Critical thinking is more than a set of skills and processes and there are many different skills and actions that may be involved in critical thinking; Emotion and emotional climate (two different things) are relevant and may need to be to be taken into account; Critical thinking is 'nurtured' in it's development. Nurturing might imply that it is best developed in a challenging environment which is relatively free of threat;
— Jennifer Moon (2012) Critical Thinking: An Exploration of Theory and Practice. p.54
Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
— PART III, SECTION I
To the Legislative Assembly belongs the consideration of measures which may best tend to the development of the resources of the Territory. Oregon possesses within herself many of these, which with enterprise and industry will most surely render her a wealthy, powerful, and prosperous State. She has a fertile soil, and genial climate; she has [vast] forests and abundant fisheries, unlimited water power, pastures upon which even during winter, innumerable flocks and herds can subsist, with no other care than the mere herding; and prairies which could with only moderate labor, furnish the whole of our Pacific Territories with bread.
— John P. Gaines (December 1852) "Governor John P. Gaines Legislative Message, 1852", Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State, Oregon Provisional and Territorial Records, 1852, Calendar No. 9375.
Global warming causing climate change may be the ultimate issue that unites us all.
louise burfitt-dons— Humanitarian Campaigner, speech at Institute of Physics, London (June 2008)
No, it's the law. One can't be too careful in this climate.
— Who: Freddy
— Source: "'Til Death" [Episode 2x4]
— Note: Character, a doctor, says he had Margaret Richardson's body embalmed, right before her reanimated corpse sneaks up behind him and decapitates him.
