Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. – Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus), Satires
With the worlds human population now at seven billion and growing, and the demand for technology and modern conveniences increasing, we cant control all our negative impacts. But we have to find better ways to live within the limits nature and its cycles impose. – David Suzuki
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. – Thomas Huxley