"as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired."

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Source : Helen Caldicott (2009). “If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth (Revised and updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

Helen Caldicott

#Eye Quotes #Ozone Quotes #Vision Quotes

“Birth is what women do. Women are privileged to stand in such power! Birth stretches a woman's limits in every sense. To allow such stretching of one's limits is the challenge of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. The challenge is to be fully present and to allow the process because of inner trust.”
“Whether weâ€™re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.”
“I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.”

Source : John Gray (2012). “Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: A Practical Guide for Improving Communication and Getting What You Want in Your Relationships”, p.2, HarperCollins UK
“I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing”
“Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.”
“They come for you in the morning in a limousine; they take you to the studio; they stick a pretty girl in your arms... They call that a profession? Come on!”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”
“You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah”

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