"The rainforests hold answers to questions we have yet to ask."

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Source : "What's Disappearing From the Amazon - Even Faster Than Wildlife?". TED Radio Hour episode Finite, www.wfdd.org. July 17, 2015.

Mark Plotkin

#Answers Quotes #Rainforest Quotes

“In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.”
“I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.”
“It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.”

Source : Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press
“A man who couldn't make things go right could at least go. He could quit trying to get out of the way of life. Chuck routine. Live the real jeopardy of circumstance. It was a question of dignity.”

Source : William Least Heat Moon (1991). “Blue Highways: A Journey Into America”, Mariner Books
“Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime”
“To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies. No amount of mockery, no amount of fashionable scowling will keep any of us from knowing and savoring the pleasure of the sun on our faces or save us from the adult understanding that it cannot last forever.”
“I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.”

Source : Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”
“For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their children. In pursuit of this goal, Jews seek - are morally required to seek - independence of other people's charity. They therefore seek safety - are morally required to seek it - through the existence of a Jewish state. Except among the theologically or humanly perverse, Zionism - the commitment to the safety and genuine sovereignty of the State of Israel - is not negotiable.”

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