Sean Baker Quotes

Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

There are plenty of people on Earth. It's not like the human race is going to disappear if a few people don't come back. Exploration is dangerous.

I am afforded a bit of easy wonderment in relative comfort as to how humans have lasted so long. Climate- and geography-wise, the planet seems to have little use for us.

Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.

You do not have to ladle on the impasto to make a point about human frailty or ambitions.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

Of course, Minneapolis, we think, 'Oh well, it's cold there, lethally cold.' But the reality is you adapt to weather... Humans are consummately adaptable creatures.

Winter makes me want to rage. You know how there's road rage? I feel like in New York or upstate New York, you're just like, 'Dammit,' because you're so cold.

New York cold gets into your bones, and you can't move.

Of course I'm not superhuman: I'm going to get tired; that's normal.

People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.

New York, hands down. I don't want to be there in the winter, but even then it's an amazing place.

You know something? There are sandstorms that strip man and horse and bury them — I've seen them. I saw bones piled higher than my head for the folly of a bad king and those who wanted his throne. I lived through a blizzard that froze every other living creature solid. Against those things, you're only a man. I can deal with you.

There are discoverable limits to the amount of change that the human organism can absorb.

Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study, a story, instead of filled with real people, trying to survive.

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency of unusually warm extremes is increasing. It is the extremes that have the most impact on people and other life on the planet.

It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.