Coastal Quotes - Page 2

• Coastal people never really know what the ocean symbolizes to landlocked inland people--what a great distant dream it is, present but unseen in the deepest level of subconsciousness, and when they arrive at the ocean and the conscious images are compared with the subconscious dream there is a sense of defeat at having come so far to be stopped by a mystery that can never be fathomed. The source of it all.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Dream, Ocean, People

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• The (U.K.) government's thesis that the countryside of upland and coastal Britain is 'worth sacrificing to save the planet' is an insult to science, economics and politics. But the greatest insult is to aesthetics. The trouble is that aesthetics has no way of answering back.

  Simon Jenkins

  Sacrifice, Government, Wind

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• It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Distance, Loneliness, Psychics

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• We have the highest graduation rates, the broadest health care access, and the greatest level of home ownership and workforce participation in the country. And we did it all with a small population in a cold state that coastal big shots refer to as fly-over land.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Country, Home, Land

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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• A panel at a beautiful annual literary festival in Brazil, held in the almost Utopian coastal town of Parati, found me matched with Fernando Gabeira. This comparison reduced my own limited charisma value to something like zero: Gabeira has excelled at every cultural activity in Brazil.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love, Beautiful, Zero

  "Terrorists Ain't What They Used To Be" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. August 15, 2006.

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• The Coastal Plain of Alaska has great potential for energy development. Americans have paid record-high prices for oil and gas in the year 2005.

  Kenny Marchant

  Alaska, Years, Oil

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• Climate change will affect the basic elements of life for people around the world - access to water, food production, health, and the environment. Hundreds of millions of people could suffer hunger, water shortages and coastal flooding as the world warms.

  Nicholas Stern

  People, Water, Suffering

  "The Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Legislation: Future Generations Will Thank You" by H. A. Goodman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2014.

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• If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens of coastal cities post-2050, once everyone knows that sea levels will keep rising and intense hurricanes will occur relentlessly?

  Joseph J. Romm

  New Orleans, Government, Sea

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.

  Willie Soon

  Climate, Temperature, Arctic

  "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

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• If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

  Neal Stephenson

  Hypocrisy, Republic, Virtue

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “The Diamond Age”, p.144, Spectra

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• Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty of the coastal waters he cares for at a time when that environment is in danger of disappearing.

  Guy De la Valdene

  Water, Care, Salt

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• I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.

  Taryn Manning

  Girl, New York, California

  "Flowing with Taryn Manning". Interview with Gerry Visco, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 21, 2014.

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• I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

  Jessicka

  Queens, Gay, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also transmit Zika virus. It has a much broader range. It's found all the way north into coastal areas of Connecticut, Long Island and the New York metro area.

  Laura Harrington

  New York, Believe, Islands

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.

  William Monahan

  Boys, Discovery, Boston

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.

  Jeff Corwin

  Fields, England, Habitat

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• I am passionate about making sure that we collectively and proactively preserve all of the world's most iconic coastal and oceanic wild places - those keystone ecosystems that are irreplaceable, breathtakingly beautiful refuges for fish and other marine wildlife.

  Serge Dedina

  Beautiful, Marine, Ecosystems

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• We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

  Graciela Chichilnisky

  New York, Sea, Rising

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

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• The democrats are a coastal party.

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Democrat

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Some of the best advice and insights I have ever received in my professional life have come from people, by listening to them, by getting out of the bubble, by getting out of our coastal media centers.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Media, People, Advice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• California just is so deeply left, particularly coastal. It just is.

  Rush Limbaugh

  California, Left

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The American government has spent a lot of money trying to reclaim, for example, the Everglades, and to allow the natural vegetation at the coastal areas to be restored because that was part of the vegetation that actually protected the hinterlands.

  Wangari Maathai

  Government, Trying, Example

  Source: kenvironews.wordpress.com

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• While certain coastal cities have become very prosperous, the rest of China has a per capita income of $200 a year. The coast wants to have nothing to do with the interior; it wants to work with Tokyo and New York. This is an old story in China. It is why Mao succeeded in 1927. He wanted [coastal] Shanghai to throw the foreigners out, but Shanghai was doing too well financially [to expel foreigners]. So Mao went to the interior and raised a peasant army. He came back to Shanghai and sealed off the country.

  George Friedman

  Country, New York, Army

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

  Edward Norton

  Tired, Levels, Formal

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