Famous quotes containing the words scale, nuclear and/or war:
“The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The problems of the world, AIDS, cancer, nuclear war, pollution, are, finally, no more solvable than the problem of a tree which has borne fruit: the apples are overripe and they are fallingwhat can be done?... Nothing can be done, and nothing needs to be done. Something is being donethe organism is preparing to rest.”
—David Mamet (b. 1947)
“The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fightersnot to talk in armies and nations and numbersbut to track it home.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)
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