"Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on natureâ€™s services in a world of close to 7 billion people"

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Source : "Bee deaths may signal wider pollination threat: U.N." by Alister Doyle, www.reuters.com. March 10, 2011.

Achim Steiner

#Independent Quotes #Reality Quotes #People Quotes

“We are really quite lucky this yeara because Christmas falls on Christmas Day”
“I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People believe that if a hijra curses you, bad things will happen. That God Ram blessed hijras with this power, that our blessings and curses will come true. People give us money because they are scared of our curse. Now that's the only way hijras can survive - by saying, "Give me money, otherwise I'll curse you." That clap, which scares people, has become our identity. In a way, you use myths and misconceptions for your own survival.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!”

Source : "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James B. Simpson, p. 301, 1988.
“Philosophy which asserts that human experience repeats itself is ineffectual.”
“When we actively relate to people as rivals or enemies, we foster the false belief that we and they stand independent of one another. The truth is that we bind ourselves to them as if by an invisible tether, and we do so by our negative thoughts and feelings." "Who we are is who we are with others. How they seem to us is a revelation of ourselves.”
“Half-heartedness never won a battle.”
“The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals up and down into infinity. This is not Hegel's ingenuity, it is his responsiveness to the organic structure in us that echoes itself throughout the whole architecture.”

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