Holmes Rolston III famous quotes

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Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Book #Pages #Language
Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Caring #Humanity #Might
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.
-- Holmes Rolston III

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Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthyâ€”and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Caring #Support #Healthy
The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Lying #Support #Culture
Tom Reganâ€™s now classicÂ Case for Animal RightsÂ blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Taken #Animal #Rights
The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Lessons #Firsts #Evolution
Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.
-- Holmes Rolston III

#Taken #Animal #Rights

Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...
... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
Soaps are the best. They really are. If you can do a soap, well, you can do anything. You have to learn pages of dialogue very quickly.
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.

Holmes Rolston III famous quotes

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