"We are the canaries in the mine. If we go, the last ecosystems go. So does the wisdom of how to sustain resources, live in balance with nature, and create communities based on cooperation, not competition. I think the rest of the world is searching for these values. I know we're here to share them. But we can only share them if we're here."

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Rebecca Adamson

#Thinking Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes #Community Quotes

“If the incentives are aligned right - towards better preservation and restoration of nature and natural resources - then you'll see a tremendous amount of activity in that direction.”
“In the current era, more than prodigies in mathematics, science, athletics, or art, I believe we need prodigies of good character and integrity. People who have polished their character and integrity until they shine are the ones who can be the real heroes the world needs to solve its problems. I think that, when people have the correct understanding of the meaning of human character, there will be a solution.”
“In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.”
“If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.”

Source : Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach, Voltaire , Voltaire, Anna Knoop, L. W. De Laurence, Jean Meslier (2010). “Superstition in All Ages”, p.61, Lulu.com
“There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.72, A&C Black
“When some people look at a shrimp they think, "Hmm. Delicious." When I look at a shrimp I think, "You're a miracle, absolutely incredible. Your ancestors have gone back hundreds of millions of years." And to develop a thing as simple as a shrimp cocktail, you have to calculate the hundreds of millions of years that have preceded that moment where you're sitting there with your sauce and fork poised.”
“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
“Everything that enters our field of perception means something, large or small. Everything speaks to us, if we will take off our headphones and hear a different sound track. Everything corresponds. We travel better in the forest of symbols when we are open and available to all the forms of meaning that are watchingâ€ and waiting for us.”

Source : Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.144, ReadHowYouWant.com

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