Jon Wynne-Tyson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#Shadow #Sun #Environment
We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#Environment
The wrong sort of people are always in power because they would not be in power if they were not the wrong sort of people.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#People
The case against vivisection is the same as that against war and all other forms of cruelty - that violence does not produce long-term solutions.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#War #Animal #Long
... the only argument against vivisection that will be seen to have lasting power - that we do not improve human society by means that debase human character.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#Character #Mean #Animal
The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.
-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

#Memories #Effectiveness #Numbers

When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You, But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You.
To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.
This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress.
If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.
Empires and churches are born under the sun of death.
Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
Trees are your best antiques
Eating is an environmental act.

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