"If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on."

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Source : "TalkAsia" with Kyung Lah, www.cnn.com. June 29, 2012.

Tamae Watanabe

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“The main reason I decided to study Latin American literature was because I'd gotten somewhat bored by the American fiction I was reading. I am not drawn to a specific style or aesthetic. When I think about literature, I think about it in the three languages I read easily - English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The authors I prefer are all very different and are not limited to certain genres or even certain time periods. Reading across three languages is a way for me to diversify my intake as a reader, not to tunnel into certain categories or demographics.”

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“I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.”
“Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.”
“No one can say I married my husband for his money. I married him because he's a beautiful art object.”
“Companies tend not to recognize that the way global projects have to be organized and run is fundamentally different from how co-located projects are managed. Everything is different in global projects from the need for organizational stability, a shared strategic context driving the project, the building of a competence in dispersed working, greater focus on planning the project to the need for trust between sites. Yet, most firms merely transfer their co-located best practice to a global arena. This will inevitably result in problems, delays and cost overruns.”
“Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.”
“Differences in race, differences in sex, somebody doesnâ€™t look at you right, somebody says something.Â Everybody is sensitive. Â If I had been as sensitive as that in the 1960s, Iâ€™d still be in Savannah.”
“Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.”

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