We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
As foreign attacks increase, it's easy to treat them like bad weather happening somewhere else. It's what we read over breakfast. But when that storm hits your shores, remember this: Wishful thinking never saved a single life. The truth, however, has.
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.
The value of catastrophic events is that they can help people face up to problems that are otherwise impossible to address.
I am driven by what I know; that the world I love is in trouble.
How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?
We — mankind — stand at the center of an evolutionary crisis, with a new evolutionary device — our consciousness of the crisis — as our unique contribution.
As a teenager I read a lot of books. Books with lots of scary trends, things like nuclear weapons and overpopulation and global diseases, and I thought, 'Wouldn't it be great to write stories that showed people these problems and that we could do something about them.'
More than fifty years ago Sputnik dramatically raised the nation's awareness of what was lacking in science and math education in America. What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good.
People dont pay attention until they have to
Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet.
We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
What you say and do in a crisis matters.
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
People never believe in volcanoes until the lava actually overtakes them.
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.
...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to listen to what the solutions are, and how hopeful it is that we are going to solve this crisis.
The AIDS crisis has brought us a consciousness of the immune system as the most important health-maintenance element, and a consciousness of how it is under attack.
Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.
There hadn't really been a climate movement, per se. I think everyone spent twenty years thinking that if we just keep pointing out that the world is on the edge of the greatest crisis by far it's ever come to, then our leaders will do something about it. And it turned out that was wrong. They weren't going to do anything about it.
Educate yourself on what's going on around the world where children are dying. Educate yourself on what's going on in Africa.
The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important role in the crisis we are living through. The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of his awareness to an absence of meaning.
After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.
