"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination." ― Martha Gellhorn Topic(s): Environmental More From Martha Gellhorn "After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat." "And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish." "Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It’s great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I’m not complaining,… Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven’t done what they wanted with their lives." More In Environmental "We assume that everything’s becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that’s true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources."― Paul Hawken "Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment."― Gale Norton "Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation’s standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father."― Jim Jeffords