God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  • -- John Muir 约翰·穆尔

上帝眷顾着这些树木,把它们从干旱、疾病、雪崩、一千次暴风雨和洪水中拯救出来。但他不能把他们从愚人手中救出来。

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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

你会死,但是碳不会;它的事业不会随着你而结束。它会回到土壤中,在那里植物可能会及时再次吸收它,让它再次进入植物和动物生命的循环。

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

拯救犀牛的唯一方法就是拯救它所生活的环境,因为在犀牛和其他数百万种动植物之间存在着相互依存的关系。

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

每当我有时间在海边,或在山上,或有时在一个安静的森林,我想这就是为什么必须保护环境。

At one point that's all I cared about, being a pro athlete. But I realized I wasn't athletic enough.

在某一时刻,这是我唯一关心的,作为一个职业运动员。但我意识到我不够运动。

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

划船提供了一个地方,一个社区,在那里人们关心我所做的和我所取得的成就。

You should save the best part of yourself for the person who deserves you.

你应该把最好的自己留给那个值得拥有你的人。

Fools give parties, sensible people go to them.

傻瓜开派对,聪明人去参加。

Fools build house and wise men live in them.

愚人盖房,智者住屋。