LA Signs/Film Quotes

 "Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." - Dead Poets Society

 "The ocean's dying. Plankton's dying. It's people. Soylent Green is made out of people. They're making our food out of people." - Soylent Green

 Signs placed on freeways around Los Angeles.

 "What Jesus blatantly fails to appreciate is that it's the meek who are the problem." - Life of Brian

 "Hello! My name is Inigo Montoya! You killed my father! Prepare to die!" - The Princess Bride

 "Who wants to live 'till the last bottle is empty? It's all for one, d'Artagnan, and one for all." - The Three Musketeers

 "If the rules don't work, you change them." - Reversal of Fortune

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LA Signs/Quotes

 "I think of the earth as my home. If everyone thought this way, people might notice how foolish international friction is, and they would put an end to it. We are, after all, at a point where it is almost narrow-minded to think merely in geocentric terms. Human beings have launched satellites into outer space, and yet they still grovel on earth looking at their own feet like wild dogs. What is to become of our planet?” – Akira Kurosawa

 Signs placed on freeways around Los Angeles.

 "But there's something just as inevitable as death. And that's life. Think of the power of the universe — turning the Earth, growing the trees. That's the same power within you — if you'll only have the courage and the will to use it." - Charlie Chaplin

 "Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances" - Jackie Chan

"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing." - Ralph Richardson 

"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players..." - William Shakespeare

 “An essential element of any art is risk. If you don’t take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn’t been seen before?” – Francis Ford Coppola

 “A cause isn’t lost as long as someone is willing to go on fighting.” - Lauren Bacall

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A Change in the Weather

 "A Change in the Weather": A novel by Raymond Welch

"The story is set in March 2028 through May 2029.  Each summer for the past ten years, the Arctic ice cap has disappeared for a few more days, and the winter ice continues to shrink and thin. The open Arctic inverts from heat reflector to heat sink, and the jet stream whips the globe like an unattended fire hose..."

 (Posters placed over and alongside the 10, 110, 101 and 405 freeways in Los Angeles)

 About the Ice Cap

 About the Author

 A Change in the Weather Blog

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Bay Area Signs

Signs placed over and alongside freeways in Alameda, San Francisco, Marin and Sonoma counties.

 "One must be of one's time and paint what one sees." - Edouard Manet

 Without ice, the Arctic Ocean will begin to absorb all of the sunlight it used to reflect.

 Wake up and smell the permafrost.

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Earth Posters: Bay Area

 A picture of the planet may not say much, but it says a hell of a lot more than the fence.

 Posters placed above and beside freeways in San Francisco, Alameda, Marin and Sonoma counties.

 "Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice." - Will Durant

 "I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here." - Clarence Darrow

 "It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!" -George Gamow

 "Every man should be capable of all ideas." ~ Jorge Luis Borges 

 "Things are the way they are because they got that way" - Gerald Weinberg

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