"We have a duty to rescue our closest living relatives as part of our wider responsibilities to conserve the ecosystems they inhabit"

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Source : "Scientists find missing links in chimp genome" by Tim Radford, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2005.

Klaus Topfer

#Responsibility Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes #Rescue Quotes

“Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the earth you are forgettingâ€¦”
“The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.”
“For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.”

Source : Sir Edwin Arnold (1879). “The Light of Asia; Or, The Great Renunciation: The Life and Teaching of Gautama, Prince of India and Founder of Buddhism”
“Change is eminent, control is an illusion, but dreams are eternal. Believe in your dreams!”
“Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.”
“A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.”
“All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.”
“We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.”

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