"My friends come from many species."

-- Anthony D. Williams

#Nature Quotes #Environment Quotes #Species Quotes

“Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.”
“A house of which one knew every room wasn't worth living in.”

Source : "The Leopard" translated by Archibald Colquhoun, London: Fontana, (p. 128), 1963.
“Agency has become a catch word. In a way, this intoxication with â€˜agencyâ€™ is the product of liberal individualism. The ability of individuals to fashion themselves, to change their live, is given ideological priority over the relation within which they themselves are actually formed, situated, and sustained.”
“Prosperity consists in our ability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological limits of a finite planet. The challenge for our society is to create the conditions under which this is possible. It is the most urgent task of our times.”
“I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.”
“A complete lack of caution is perhaps one of the true signs of a real gourmet: he has no need for it, being filled as he is with a God-given and intelligently self-cultivated sense of gastronomical freedom.”

Source : Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.624, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Equations seem like treasures, spotted in the rough by some discerning individual, plucked and examined, placed in the grand storehouse of knowledge, passed on from generation to generation. This is so convenient a way to present scientific discovery, and so useful for textbooks, that it can be called the treasure-hunt picture of knowledge.”

Source : Robert P. Crease (2010). “The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company
“Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact.”

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