"Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied up with the welfare of wildlife. Well may conservationists proclaim that by saving the lives of wild species, we may be saving our own."

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Source : Norman Myers (1983). “A Wealth of Wild Species: Storehouse for Human Welfare”

Norman Myers

#Animal Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Each Day Quotes

“In baseball, you've got to keep working.”
“The only thing more exhausting than sleeping on a bad mattress is shopping for a new one.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The pleasures of love are for those who are hopelessly addicted to another living creature. The reasons for such addiction are so many that I suspect they are never the same in any two cases. It includes passion but does not survive by passion; it has its whiffs of the agreeable vertigo of young love, but it is stable more often than dizzy; it is a growing, changing thing, and it is tactful enough to give the addicted parties occasional rests from strong and exhausting feeling of any kind.”
“I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2011). “Velva Jean Learns to Fly: Book 2 in the Velva Jean series”, p.40, Penguin
“All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.”
“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”

Source : Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, Northwestern Univ Pr
“For all the huffing and puffing of the doubters, a home of our own is still the rock on which our hopes are built. Price appreciation aside (and most houses will appreciate, eventually), homeownership is a state of mind. It's your piece of the earth. It's where a family's toes grow roots. It's where the flowers are yours, not God's.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.473, Simon and Schuster
“most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.”

Source : Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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