Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Alfred W. Crosby

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American author Alfred W. Crosby.
Last updated on December 5, 2024.
Alfred W. Crosby

Alfred W. Crosby Jr. was professor of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and University of Helsinki. He was the author of books including The Columbian Exchange (1972) and Ecological Imperialism (1986). In these works, he provided biological and geographical explanations for the question why Europeans were able to succeed with relative ease in what he referred to as the "Neo-Europes" of Australasia, North America, and southern South America. America's Forgotten Pandemic (1976) is the first major critical history of the 1918 "Spanish" Flu.

I don't know how not to get the flu. — © Alfred W. Crosby
I don't know how not to get the flu.
Modern civilization is a product of an energy binge. Binges often end in hangovers.
What could be more general than 2, which can represent two galaxies or two pickles, or one galaxy plus one pickle (the mind doth boggle), or just 2 gently bobbing - where? It, like God, is an "I am" and many have thought that it must be a precipitate of ultimate reality.
We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are not qualified to make almost every time we enter the voting booth, go to the grocery store or step into a car show room. We do not know what is "normal." Because our whole life and in some respects a generation or two before us have only known this era of fossil fuel exploitation and resource grabbing; we call this normal.
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash.
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