WH William H. Calvin Neuroscientist “Even if we stop the growth, we'd still be adding a constant amount of fossil carbon to the atmosphere each year.” Years Growth Atmosphere ♥ 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “Of lower states, of acts of routine and sense, we can tell somewhat; but the masterpieces of God, the total growths and universalmovements of the soul, he hideth; they are incalculable. I can know that truth is divine and helpful; but how it shall help me I can have no guess, for so to be is the sole inlet of so to know.” Soul Growth Knowledge ♥ 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a profane person,and became a showman, turning his gifts to marketable use, and not to his own sustenance and growth. It was found that the intellect could be independently developed, that is, in separation from the man, as any single organ can be invigorated, and the result was monstrous.” Men Growth Selfish ♥ 3
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet “Every man is not so much a workman in the world as he is a suggestion of that he should be. Men walk as prophecies of the next age.” Men Age Growth ♥ 3
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer “We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.” Animal Growth Psychics ♥ 3
Rand Paul Politician “The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.” Believe Growth Promise ♥ 3
Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author “Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.” Government Justice Growth ♥ 3
Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist “Within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent.” Years Character Growth ♥ 3
Thomas Huxley Biologist, Anthropologist “I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.” Mind Growth Rejection ♥ 3
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father “Instead of that liberty which takes root and growth in the progress of reason, if recovered by mere force or accident, it becomes with an unprepared people a tyranny still of the many, the few, or the one.” People Growth Roots ♥ 3
Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father “I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation.” Ideas Religious Growth ♥ 3
WH William H. Calvin Neuroscientist “Stopping emissions growth represents the most minimal of do-something responses.” Growth Climate Stopping ♥ 3
