The Ocean Seemed Like A Sea Of

When I First Ventured Into The Gulf Of Mexico In The 1950s, The Sea Appeared To Be A Blue Infinity Too Large, Too Wild To Be Harmed By Anything That People Could Do.

The Concept Of 'peak Oil' Has Penetrated The Hearts And Minds Of People Concerned About Energy For The Future. 'peak Fish' Occurred Around The End Of The 1980s.

For Humans, The Arctic Is A Harshly Inhospitable Place, But The Conditions There Are Precisely What Polar Bears Require To Survive - And Thrive. 'harsh' To Us Is 'home' For Them. Take Away The Ice And Snow, Increase The Temperature By Even A Little, And The Realm That Makes Their Lives Possible Literally Melts Away.

Everyone Has Power. But It Doesn't Help If You Don't Use It.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.