Paracelsus Quotes

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.

Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced by so many factors such as geography, climate, religion, the economy and technology.

New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not only just the landscapes themselves but their relationships to what we would call 'a center' or 'the center of the universe,' has in some ways defined my artistic and critical vision.

It was remarkable to see from space how predictable people are. Our homes and towns are almost all in places with moderate temperatures, and they generally have the same shape - a thinly occupied outer blob of suburb surrounding a densely populated core, all based around a ready source of water.

Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

Geography is everywhere

The striking differences between the long-term histories of peoples of the different continents have been due not to innate differences in the people themselves but to differences in their environments.

Geography determines social development …. But geography may be losing much of its meaning.

Geography determines the course of history.

Improvement in social conditions will not compensate for a bad hereditary influence.

Great influence has at all times been ascribed to climate... [but] we have abundance of proof that [differences of climate] are entirely inadequate to account for the differences between the different races of men.

Conditions are always different here in Durban. Especially different from Johannesburg.

I've always been opposed to population control. In climate terms, population is not the biggest problem going forward.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

The physician cannot prescribe by letter, he must feel the pulse.

The record rainfall and storm surges that have brought flooding across the UK are a clear sign that we are already experiencing the impacts of climate change.

Several indisputable facts appear evident in geological and climate science that make me a true 'denier' of human-caused global warming.

Climate change is a fact. Its consequences, damages and costs are already being felt around the globe.

When you frack a well, you're exploding methane up into the atmosphere. So, Barack Obama, by supporting natural gas, and also talking about climate change is literally burning his own inaugural address. And he's doing it with natural gas.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.