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# Don Henley

Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947 in Gilmer, Texas) is an American rock musician who is the drummer and one of the lead singers and songwriters of the band The Eagles. He has since had a successful solo career and has played a founding role in several charitable causes.

## Song lyrics
### I Can't Stand Still, 1982

* Got the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at five She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye It's interesting when people die: give us dirty laundry.
** "Dirty Laundry"
* We can do the innuendo, We can dance and sing And when it's said and done We haven't told you a thing, We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.
** "Dirty Laundry"

### The End of the Innocence (1989)

* When happily ever after fails And weve been poisoned by these fairy tales The lawyers dwell on small details Since daddy had to fly But I know a place where we can go Thats still untouched by man Well sit and watch the clouds roll by And the tall grass wave in the wind. You can lay your head back on the ground And let your hair fall all around me. Offer up your best defense But this is the end This is the end of the innocence.
** "The End of the Innocence" (co-written with Bruce Hornsby)
* I see you around sometimes and my heart just melts. You're looking like if you had your wish, you'd be somewhere else. And it just breaks my heart to see you here this way. Someday I'll get the nerve to walk up to you and say This is the last worthless evening that you'll have to spend. Just gimme a chance to show you how to love again.
** "The Last Worthless Evening" (co-written with John Corey and Stan Lynch)
* I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter But my will gets weak And my thoughts seem to scatter But I think it's about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if, even if you don't love me anymore.
** "The Heart of the Matter" (co-written with Mike Campbell and J. D. Souther) - The Heart of the Matter (Live at Farm Aid 1990)
* I've been learning to live without you now But I miss you sometimes The more I know, the less I understand All the things I thought I knew, I'm learning them again.
** "The Heart of the Matter"
* I've been tryin' to get down to the Heart of the Matter Because the flesh will get weak And the ashes will scatter So I'm thinkin' about forgiveness Forgiveness Even if you don't love me anymore.
** "The Heart of the Matter"
# Julia Butterfly Hill

Julia Lorraine "Butterfly" Hill (born February 18 1974) is an American environmental activist.

## Quotes

* Activism is Patriotism.
** Slogan adopted by her (see also the picture on the right). Quoted in Julia Butterfly Hill: Activism is Patriotism, TreeHugger, December 2004.
* Wounds on the external landscape exist in the internal landscape first. We re-create those inner wounds on the outside, on the planet. So being a vegan, practicing yoga, and taking time to exercise and do things that nourish my heart and spirit are all vital parts of my “activism.” Activists have done a great job of caring for the world around us, but we haven’t done a great job of caring for ourselves and each other. … If we’re going to ask people to open up to the pain of the earth, we ought to have systems in place that enable us to relieve each other’s pain.
** "The Butterfly Effect". Interview by Leslee Goodman for The Sun, April 2012, issue 436

### The Legacy of Luna (2000)

* I knew that if I didn't find a way to deal with my anger and hate, they would overwhelm me and I would be swallowed up in the fear, sadness, and frustration. I knew that to hate and strike out was to be a part of the same violence I was trying to stop. And so I prayed.
** Ch. 5
* One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to consume me. I suddenly realized that what I was feeling was the love of the Earth, the love of Creation. Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
** Ch. 5
* Angels are people who pop into our lives at a need time and then disappear without a track, having helped us through a critical point.
** Ch. 7
* True transformation occurs only when we can look at ourselves squarely and face our attachments and inner demons, free from the buzz of commercial distraction and false social realities. We have to retreat into our own cocoons and come face-to-face with who we are. We have to turn toward our own inner darkness. For only by abandoning its attachments and facing the darkness does the caterpillar's body begin to spread out and its light, beautiful wings begin to form.
** Ch. 8
# Anti-Italianism

Anti-Italianism or Italophobia is a negative attitude regarding Italian people or people with Italian ancestry, often expressed through the use of prejudice or stereotypes. Its opposite is Italophilia.

## Quotes

* The mass media has consistently ignored five centuries of Italian American history, and has elevated what was never more than a minute subculture to the dominant Italian American culture.
** "Hollywood vs Italians", The Italic Way, a publication of The Italic Institute of America, Vol XXVII, 1997
* Anti-Italianism in sixteenth-century France undoubtedly was a specific type of ethnic antagonism.... The emergence of anti-Italianism as a national issue was closely connected to the crisis of the French Renaissance monarchy. In this context, anti-Italianism became an important political tool successively of the Huguenots, the League, and, ultimately of the Bourbon monarchy.
** Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France By Henry Heller
* The xenophobia of the Lyonnais against Italians was by no means exceptional. Much of France both north and south at that moment was in the grip of a deep wave of anti-Italian feeling.
** Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France By Henry Heller
* Even as early as 962, Bishop Liutprand of Cremona wrote: "We Lombards, Saxons, Franks, Lotharingians, Bavarians, Swabians, and Burgundians have such utter contempt for the Romans that when we try to express our indignation we can find no term with which to insult our enemies more damaging than that of Romans. This single word means for us all that is ignoble, cowardly, sordid, obscene."
** Aaron Gillette, Racial Theories in Fascist Italy p 10-11
* [Italians are] "just a little worse than the Negro, being if anything filthier in [their] habits, lawless, and treacherous."
** John Parker (governor of Louisiana) quoted in : On Persecution, Identity, and Activism by Cristogianni Borsella. And in: Falco, Ed (2012). "When Italian immigrants were 'the other'". CNN.com.
* Monday we dined at the Camerons; various dago diplomats were present, all much wrought up by the lynching of the Italians in New Orleans. Personally I think it rather a good thing, and said so.
** Comment by Theodore Roosevelt: Roosevelt, Theodore (March 21, 1891). "Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Anna Roosevelt"
* These sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins, who have transported to this country the lawless passions, the cut-throat practices, and the oath-bound societies of their native country, are to us a pest without mitigation. Our own rattlesnakes are as good citizens as they...Lynch law was the only course open to the people of New Orleans.
** "The New Orleans Affair". Editorial in The New York Times. March 16, 1891. p. 4.
# Ikal Angelei

Ikal Angelei is a Kenyan politician and environmentalist. She was born in Kitale. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2012.

## Quotes

* People always say, “Oh, we are controlling the flooding.” But you cannot alter nature; you cannot fight nature… Lake Turkana doesn’t have an outlet; it is a closed lake. So it depends on that balance of inflow versus evaporation. If you reduce that inflow, the level of evaporation increases. Once you have altered the balance of the lake, you have damaged the ecosystem completely.
* The same [threat] exists in Ethiopia — we cannot ignore that this is an area where communities are also struggling for resources. The communities live a way of life that is like a typical African three-legged stool. They depend on subsistence farming; they depend on fishing; and they depend on pastoralism. If you reduce the floods, it damages their subsistence farming, which is very key to their normal way of life… If you remove one leg, the stool really cannot balance.
* You cannot say ‘development’ is telling people that your way of life doesn’t work anymore,Yes, I think it is a human rights abuse and an environmental abuse.
* There’s conflict between the Turkana and Dassanach in Kenya, and the Turkana and the Dassanach across the border… People used to talk about traditional raids. It’s no longer that. People are now well armed and it depends on who has more bullets than the other.There’s absolutely no way that dam can go on and the people in Turkana will survive.
** A Kenyan Woman Stands Up Against Massive Dam Project YaleEnvironment 360,25 April 2012 by Christina M. Russo
# Hugh Iltis

Hugh Iltis (April 7, 1925 – December 19, 2016) was an American environmentalist and professor of botany.

## Quotes

* The general biological ignorance bodes ill for democratic decisions on environmental issues.
** (December 1973)"Can one love a plastic tree?". Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 54 (4): 5-7, 9.
* The classification of biodiversity is the job of taxonomists who, born as packrats and inspired by a compulsion to explore and collect the world's biological riches, will risk life and limb to solve the great puzzles of biogeography, ethnobotany, and evolution.
** (1988)"Serendipity in the exploration of biodiversity". Biodiversity. National Academy Press. pp. 98–105. (quote from p. 98)
* Current evidence suggests that teosinte was first tended for its green ears and sugary pith by hunter-gatherers as an occasional rainy-season food in small “garden” populations away from its homeland, and not for its abundant grain-containing, hard fruitcases, which easily mass-collected but useless as food, are as yet unknown from the archeological record. A rare grain-liberating teosinte mutation (probably expressed in only one “founder” plant, a mazoid “Eve”), which exposed the encased grain for easy harvest, was soon recognized as useful, collected and planted (or self-planted). Thus maize was started on its way to a unique horticultural domestication that is not comparable to that of the temperate Old World mass-selected agricultural grains.
** (January 2000)"Homeotic Sexual Translocations and the Origin of Maize (Zea mays, Poaceae): A New Look at an Old Problem". Economic Botany 54 (1): 7–42. DOI:10.1007/BF02866598. (quote from p. 7)

## Quotes about Iltis

* As a plant explorer, Iltis led expeditions to Mexico, Guatemala, Peru and Ecuador. His expertise focused on the corn and caper families, but he collected broadly. For example, he discovered two of the 13 species in the tomato genus, including one that proved to have a trait sought in the canning industry.
** David Tenenbaum in: (30 December 2016)"Hugh Iltis, UW's 'battling botanist,' dies at 91". UW-Madison News.
# Kate Trinajstic

Professor Kate Trinajstic or Katherine M. Trinajstic is an Australian palaeontologist, evolutionary biologist, and winner of the Dorothy Hill Award. She is the Dean of Research, Faculty of Science and Engineering at Curtin University.

## Quotes

* "In the limestone ranges of Western Australia’s Kimberley region, near the town of Fitzroy Crossing, you’ll find one of the world’s best-preserved ancient reef complexes."
* "Here lie the remnants of myriad prehistoric marine animals, including placoderms, a prehistoric class of fish that represents some of our earliest jawed ancestors."
** We found the oldest ever vertebrate fossil heart. It tells a 380 million-year-old story of how our bodies evolved. Kate Trinajstic & John Long, Published: September 15, 2022. THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: 23, November 2023.
* "If all jawed vertebrates, including humans, are nothing more than highly evolved placoderms, then key features of ourselves should be traceable to structures that first appeared in our fishy placoderm ancestors. This would include particular jaw and skull bones and the proportions of our face and brain."
* "Imagine trying to identify and compare equivalent bits of anatomy shared between an oyster, a beetle and a blue whale. That is essentially the problem we face with early vertebrate fossils."
** Our ideas about vertebrate evolution challenged by a new tree of life. Benedict King, John Long & Mike Lee, Published: December 5, 2016. THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: 21, November 2023.

## References

* ↑ "Public Staff Profile". Staff Portal. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
# Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder (17 October 1948 – 13 May 2018) was a Canadian-American actress.

## Quotes

* Trained chauvinists. When they get together, they talk about pussy. I heard them talk, and there was no genuine intimacy. When I first met them, I thought they were such macho boobs. Then I got to know some of them separately, in a way they won’t reveal to each other, and they were totally different human beings. Women with any wisdom look at men doing that macho number and are embarrassed for the guys. We know it’s bullshit, that it comes out of insecurity. They just don’t know we know.
** On the cohorts of her ex-husband, writer Thomas McGuane, Rolling Stone (1979)
* A lot of women sit around going, ‘We’re so oppressed by men, look what they’ve done to us!’ And you end up with a fucking Sylvia Plath, with her martyred little stupid head in the oven. This one night I was really depressed, and I thought, ‘Sylvia Plath in Malibu!’ So I said to myself, ‘Stop sitting around feeling sorry for yourself, Kidder. Smarten up and take the next step….’ Self-pity is a bore.
** On female oppression and resilience, Rolling Stone (1979)
* A man is just another thing that needs time, and giving, and I don’t have it in me at this point in my life. Strangely, I think I have to be alone to be myself. That’s a paradox, and something else I can’t face, because I love men, and I love sex. Sex is the one place where I feel safe, where I feel I can get together with men.
** On sex, Rolling Stone (1979)
* Listen, I’ve never done anything in moderation in my life. I’ve always been addicted to excess. I mean, this whole concept of moderation is something I yearn for.
** On moderation and self-discipline, Rolling Stone (1979)
* I'm not choosy at all! I'll do practically anything. I'm the biggest whore on the block. I live in a little town in Montana, and you have to drag me out of here to get to L.A., so I'm not readily available. But unless it's something sexist or cruel, I just love to work. I've done all sorts of things, but you just haven't seen them because they're often very bad and shown at 4 in the morning.
** On choosing film projects, The Advocate (2008)
* I really don’t like the practice of outing people who haven’t outed themselves. It’s horrendously cruel and insensitive to that particular person’s own needs. The fragility of the human heart is something that we need to start respecting, and so to out someone who doesn’t want to be outed is unnecessary. There are groups who believe they should out famous people, and I find it so small. With political activism, there are many ways to achieve your goals. The trick is to get to the top of the mountain; it’s not how you get there.
** On the practice of outing LGBT people, The Advocate (2008)
* Discrimination takes many forms, and if you look at the root of it, it’s fear, envy, jealousy, and a lot of ugly, petty emotions.
** On discrimination, The Advocate (2008)

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Margot Kidder on Wikipedia
* Margot Kidder at the Notable Names Database
# Paul Kingsnorth

Paul Kingsnorth (born 1972 in Worcester) is an English writer and unaffiliated thinker.

## Quotes

* For fifteen years I have been an environmental campaigner and writer. [...] But after a while, I stopped believing it. There were two reasons for this. The first was that none of the campaigns were succeeding, except on a very local level. More broadly, everything was getting worse. The second was that environmentalists, it seemed to me, were not being honest with themselves. It was increasingly obvious that climate change could not be stopped, that modern life was not consistent with the needs of the global ecosystem, that economic growth was part of the problem, and that the future was not going to be bright, green, comfy and 'sustainable' for ten billion people but was more likely to offer decline, depletion, chaos and hardship for all of us.
** "Why I stopped believing in environmentalism and started the Dark Mountain Project", The Guardian, 29 April 2010.
* To me, this is the most exciting thing about the Dark Mountain Project. [...] It is a vision that a few years back would have seemed heretical to many greens, but which is now gaining wide traction as the failure of humanity to respond to the crises it has created becomes increasingly obvious. Together we are able to say it loud and clear: we are not going to 'save the planet'. The planet is not ours to save. The planet is not dying; but our civilisation might be, and neither green technology nor ethical shopping is going to prevent a serious crash.
** "Why I stopped believing in environmentalism and started the Dark Mountain Project", The Guardian, 29 April 2010.
* The EU violates just about every green principle going. It is the opposite of local; it is destructive to the natural world; it wipes out cultural distinctiveness; it is anti-democratic; it puts the interests of banks and corporations before the interests of its working people. Why – when – how – did the Green Movement abandon its commitment to localism and democracy, and jump into bed with a beast like this?
** "Brexit reconsidered: a modern day peasants’ revolt?", CounterPunch, 21 December 2016.
# Lai Pei-yuan

Lai Pei-yuan (賴倍元; Lài Bèiyuán) is a retired Taiwanese entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is known for planting trees over more than 130 hectares of land all by himself around Taiwan.

## Quotes

* If I was to safeguard Taiwan, I would have to plant trees.
** Lai Pei-yuan (2013) cited in "Taiwan's 'King of the Trees' fights for the forests" on Terra Daily, 10 February 2013.
* I am neither an idealist, nor a dreamer. I am a doer.
** Lai Pei-yuan (2015) cited in "King of the Forests" on Taiwan Today, 1 June 2015.
# Gary Larson

Gary Larson (August 14, 1950–) is an American cartoonist.

## Quotes

* Doing something controversial was never my intention. This was just my sense of humor, and the kind of humor in my family. I never drew anything my mom wouldn’t have laughed at. Of course, my mom was insane. I’m kidding! Well, maybe a little.
* My own benchmark for success was pretty basic — I just wanted to be able to pay my rent. Beyond reaching that goal I really didn’t care much. I was doing something I loved, getting by, and that’s what mattered. So, in my own eyes, I think I became successful somewhere in my second year. But I’m not sure I ever quite shook the sense that the whole thing might be a house of cards. I always felt like yesterday’s cartoon was yesterday’s cartoon, and I was only as funny as today’s.
** ‘The Far Side’ Is Back. Sort Of. Gary Larson Will Explain. (December 17, 2019)

## External links

* Official website
# Makoma Lekalakala

Makoma Lekalakala is a South African activist who is the director of the Johannesburg Earthlife Africa.

## Quotes

* We broke that barrier and we are continuously breaking barriers.
** Goldman Prize awarded to South African women who stopped an international nuclear dea ( April 23, 2018)
* Young people are the future. We need young people to take on the mantle and continue that fight to protect the hard-won gains of activists that came before them.
** Briefly news Women of Wonder 2022. (December 12, 2022)
# Ximena Vélez Liendo

Ximena Vélez Liendo (born 7 March 1976, Oruro, Bolivia) is a Bolivian conservation biologist whose work focus on the ecology of the Andean bear, known as jukumari in aymara language, and its conservation in Bolivia and the rest of South America.

## Quotes
### "Advice from a conservation biologist: Keep walking" (2022)

    "Advice from a conservation biologist: Keep walking", Ben G. (Lenovo CM). 14 Jun 2022, Lenovo EDU Community. Retrieved: 29, November 2023.
* Let your children dream and dream big!
* Make questions. Wander about nature and the universe. Never surrender!
* Keep walking.
# Lisa Alexander (earth scientist)

Lisa Victoria Alexander is an international expert on heatwaves. She received the Dorothy Hill Medalfor her research on climate extremes, the frequency and intensity of heatwaves, and has provided evidence that the frequency and intensity of heatwaves will be influenced by the quantity of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide.

## Quotes

* "Climate models are one of many tools scientists use to understand how the climate changed in the past and what it will do in future."
* "Before industrial times, CO₂ levels in the atmosphere were 280 parts per million. So a doubling of CO₂ will occur at 560 parts per million."
* "So should we be using climate models? We are climate scientists from Australia’s Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and we believe the answer is a firm yes."
** Yes, a few climate models give unexpected predictions – but the technology remains a powerful tool. August 8, 2021 11.04pm SAS, THE CONVERSATION. Retrieved: November 14, 2023.
* "Emissions resulting from human activities are substantially increasing the concentrations of carbon dioxide [and other greenhouse gases. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming of the Earth’s surface.'
** Monday’s IPCC report is a really big deal for climate change. So, what is it? And why should we trust it? August 7, 2021 2.01am SAST, THE CONVERSATION. Retrieved: November 14, 2023
* When we say there’s a scientific consensus that human-produced greenhouse gases are causing climate change, what does that mean? What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and what do they do?
** Climate explained: how the IPCC reaches scientific consensus on climate change. June 29, 2021 6.00am SAST, THE CONVERSATION, Retrieved: November 14, 2023

## References

* ↑ "2013 awardees | Australian Academy of Science". www.science.org.au. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
# Janice Lough

Janice Lough FAA is a climate scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) at James Cook University, researching climate change, and impacts of temperature and elevated CO2 on coral reefs.

## Quotes

* While bleaching surveys are ongoing, a distinct pattern is emerging, whereby the severity of bleaching declines from north to south.
* At the start of southern summer it was predicted that bleaching would be largely restricted to central and southern parts of the GBR.
** Coral Bleaching Taskforce: more than 1,000 km of the Great Barrier Reef has bleached. April 6, 2016 10.13pm SAST, Morgan Pratchett. The Conversation, Retrieved: 19 November, 2023.
* If we only listened! few of those familiar with the natural heat exchanges of the atmosphere, which go inti the making of our climate and weather, would be prepared to admit that the activities of man could have any influence on phenomena of so vast a scale. In the following paper i hope to show that such an influence is not only possible but us actually occurring at the present time.
* We know that global climate is changing due to human actions, climate has changed in the past but not at the current rate and with present human population and heavily impacted global temperatures.
** Janice Lough - A Changing Climate for Coral Reefs. 19th October 2007, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Studies. Retrieved: 19 November, 2023