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Letter "J" » Jared Diamond Quotes
«Australia is the most isolated continent.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placing me in this group of achievers. I compared what I'd actually achieved in my life with what I would like to achieve and what other people have achieved, and I found that comparison depressing.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Lest those islands still seem to you too remote in space and time to be relevant to our modern societies, just think about the risks... of our increasing globalization and increasing worldwide economic interdependence.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't have anthropologists.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Some people have much more pull than other people. But when I say that the public has ultimate responsibility, I'm not saying it in a moral sense. I'm just saying it in the sense of what is it that's really going to bring change.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.»
Author: Jared Diamond
«Take air quality in the United States today: It's about 30 percent better than it was 25 years ago, even though there are now more people driving more cars.»
Author: Jared Diamond
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