Quotes About Progress

All great thinkers are initially ridiculed – and eventually revered.

Ruined land was accepted as the collateral damage of progress.

Transformation is not accomplished by tentative wading at the edge.

Images of Skywoman speak not just of where we came from, but also of how we can go forward.

How can we begin to move toward ecological and cultural sustainability if we cannot even imagine what the path feels like?

transformation is slow.

There are powerful forces of destruction loose in the world, advancing inexorably toward her children and mine. The onslaught of progress, well-intentioned to improve human habitat, threatens the nest I've chosen for my children as surely as I threatened hers.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

Lend me the stone strength of the past and I will lend youThe wings of the future, for I have them.

Civilization is a transient sickness.

You've been treading water," she said. "You're marking the years, not living them.

Our histories plan our futures.

big! You're growing

You have to find something, Officer Dodge. Something that anchors you, something that keeps you looking forward, even on the bad days, when you're tempted to look back.

But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT

opposable thumbs than any prior.

have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.

Danseuse routine and my fame grew. I could walk into a

My kingdom for a flush toilet.

You are one of the wealthiest women of the city, Gabriella.' I smiled. Because like, two months ago, I was begging Mom to borrow thirty bucks for a sweater. Rich. I could get into that.

We all make mistakes coming from our place of pain. When we know better, we do better.

Grief and trauma, I remind myself, are not linear experiences. There are good days and bad ones, hard dips into despair, moments of light and hope.

A better reason why we, and other intelligent species, are born with such poorly developed brains is so that we can learn.