A Quote by Gordon Hempton

We think the problem is out there, when the problem is really in here - who we are and how we experience the world around us. The acoustic ecologist listens, as the primary sense, to the world around us, and I believe that they have a significant contribution to make to all environmental groups who think that they're solving environmental problems, when we're actually all on a spiritual pilgrimage.

Gordon Hempton

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Queen Rania of Jordan

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Allan Bloom

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Alberto Villoldo

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Palmer Luckey

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Peter Singer

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Jacques Yves Cousteau

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People like you should be stopped, Mr. Woodrow,' she mused aloud, with a puzzled shake of her wise head. 'You think you're solving the world's problems but actually you're the problem.

John le Carre

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Bryan Stevenson

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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