“Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.”
Dave Foreman
“Insist upon yourself. Be original.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Never solve a problem from its original perspective.”
Charles Thompson
“It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.”
Buddha
“Alexander Hamilton originated the put and take system in our national treasury: the taxpayers put it in, and the politicians take it out”
Will Rogers
“So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated 'till this mortal shall put on immortality.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?”
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
