"A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage."

-- Yo-Yo Ma

#Order Quotes #Other Cultures Quotes #Community Quotes

“God, children know something they can't tell; they like Red Riding Hood and the wolf in bed!”
“Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here, And you must treat it as a powerful stranger, Must ask permission to know it and be known. The forest breathes. Listen. It answers, I have made this place around you, If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here. No two trees are the same to Raven. No two branches are the same to Wren. If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you, You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows Where you are. You must let it find you.”
“You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you spend any time around them, you discover that they love their children just as much as we love ours. That is certainly true of the Vietnamese.”
“Life is hard, and then you die.”
“You've always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I've fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

Source : Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.219, Simon and Schuster
“Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.”
“The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.”
“Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon Her and all must hopelessly perish if that Earth dies that feeds us.”

Source : "Our Senseless Toil". Book by Viktor Schauberger, 1934.

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