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Famous Quotations about Change

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. (John Kennedy, American president)

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered”. (Nelson Mandela, South African president)

“Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. (Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, American novelist)

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change”. (Confucius, Chinese teacher)

“Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence”. (Masatoshi Naito, Japanese photographer)

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present”. (Jan Glidewell. American journalist)

“To change and to change for the better are two different things”. (German proverb)

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”. (Arnold Bennett, English novelist)

“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along”. (Lisa Alther, American novelist)

EARLE-CARLIN, S. Skills for Success. 2^nd edition, 2015.

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Famous Quotations about Change

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. (John Kennedy, American president)

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered”. (Nelson Mandela, South African president)

“Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. (Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, American novelist)

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change”. (Confucius, Chinese teacher)

“Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence”. (Masatoshi Naito, Japanese photographer)

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present”. (Jan Glidewell. American journalist)

“To change and to change for the better are two different things”. (German proverb)

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”. (Arnold Bennett, English novelist)

“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along”. (Lisa Alther, American novelist)

EARLE-CARLIN, S. Skills for Success. 2^nd edition, 2015.

Answer the questions below according to text.

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Famous Quotations about Change

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”. (John Kennedy, American president)

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find how you yourself have altered”. (Nelson Mandela, South African president)

“Certain things should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. (Holden Caulfield in Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, American novelist)

“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change”. (Confucius, Chinese teacher)

“Everything is in a process of change, nothing endures; we do not seek permanence”. (Masatoshi Naito, Japanese photographer)

“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present”. (Jan Glidewell. American journalist)

“To change and to change for the better are two different things”. (German proverb)

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts”. (Arnold Bennett, English novelist)

“That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along”. (Lisa Alther, American novelist)

EARLE-CARLIN, S. Skills for Success. 2^nd edition, 2015.

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        How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

    Try to imagine an environment largely untouched by humans and the Amazon rainforest might spring to mind. After all, large swathes of this South American landscape are blanketed in thick vegetation, suggesting it is one corner of the world that humans never managed to tame. Here, there must have been no deforestation, no agricultural revolution and no cities. It seems like a pristine environment.

    Or so we thought. But a very different picture is emerging. Archaeologists working with Indigenous communities have been shown crumbling urban remains and remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are revealing the footprints of vast ghost cities. With so much evidence of ancient human activity, it is now thought the pre-Columbian Amazon was inhabited by millions of people – some living in large built-up areas complete with road networks, temples and pyramids.

    But that’s not all this research reveals. Paradoxically, it also provides evidence that the traditional view of the Amazon isn’t completely wide of the mark. For instance, while the ancient Amazonians managed their landscape intensively, they didn’t deforest it. And although they developed complex societies, they never went through a wholesale agricultural revolution. This might suggest that the pre-Columbian Amazonians broke the mould of human cultural development, which is traditionally seen as a relentless march from hunting and gathering to farming to urban complexity. The truth is more surprising. In fact, we are now coming to understand that there was no such mould – civilisation arose in myriad ways. What looks like an anomaly in the Amazon is actually a shining example of a process that was as vibrant and diverse as the rainforest itself.

Adapted from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334980-500-how-ghost cities-in-the-amazon-are-rewriting-the-story-of-civilisation/

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        How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation

    Try to imagine an environment largely untouched by humans and the Amazon rainforest might spring to mind. After all, large swathes of this South American landscape are blanketed in thick vegetation, suggesting it is one corner of the world that humans never managed to tame. Here, there must have been no deforestation, no agricultural revolution and no cities. It seems like a pristine environment.

    Or so we thought. But a very different picture is emerging. Archaeologists working with Indigenous communities have been shown crumbling urban remains and remote sensing technologies such as LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) are revealing the footprints of vast ghost cities. With so much evidence of ancient human activity, it is now thought the pre-Columbian Amazon was inhabited by millions of people – some living in large built-up areas complete with road networks, temples and pyramids.

    But that’s not all this research reveals. Paradoxically, it also provides evidence that the traditional view of the Amazon isn’t completely wide of the mark. For instance, while the ancient Amazonians managed their landscape intensively, they didn’t deforest it. And although they developed complex societies, they never went through a wholesale agricultural revolution. This might suggest that the pre-Columbian Amazonians broke the mould of human cultural development, which is traditionally seen as a relentless march from hunting and gathering to farming to urban complexity. The truth is more surprising. In fact, we are now coming to understand that there was no such mould – civilisation arose in myriad ways. What looks like an anomaly in the Amazon is actually a shining example of a process that was as vibrant and diverse as the rainforest itself.

Adapted from: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26334980-500-how-ghost cities-in-the-amazon-are-rewriting-the-story-of-civilisation/

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    Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature’s first green is gold, 
Her hardest hue to hold. 
Her early leaf’s a flower; 
But only so an hour. 
Then leaf subsides to leaf. 
So Eden sank to grief, 
So dawn goes down to day. 
Nothing gold can stay. 

Robert Frost, "Nothing Gold Can Stay", from: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652/nothing-gold-can-stay 5c095cc5ab679.