It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

  • -- David R. Brower 大卫·R·布罗尔

似乎每次人类被赋予很多能量,我们就会出去破坏一些东西。

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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

平等,正如我们的开国元勋们所正确理解的那样,将导致自由和创造性分歧的解放;正如在我们这个时代所发生的悲剧一样,对它的错误理解,首先导致了顺从,然后导致了专制。

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

我认为,一种解决环境问题的旧方式正在消失,但是,这个国家所谓的保守派政治运动的兴起并不是走向未来的趋势,而是对我们正在经历的这种非常广泛的转变的反应。

The reserve currency role seems to add prestige to an area and some people in Europe have talked about the desirability of the euro becoming an international reserve currency.

储备货币的角色似乎增加了一个地区的声望,一些欧洲人也谈到了欧元成为国际储备货币的可取之处。

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

我越来越尊重事实,越来越不尊重理论。在我看来,事实是一件伟大的事情;一个句子,如果不是上帝印的,那么至少是魔鬼印的。

Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes.

维持健康的森林对那些以土地为生的人以及我们这些将其用于娱乐目的的人来说是必不可少的。

The history of all times, and of today especially, teaches that ... women will be forgotten if they forget to think about themselves.

古往今来的历史,尤其是今天的历史告诉我们……女人如果忘记为自己着想,就会被遗忘。