"An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment."

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Source : "The Sum of You: Teach Yourself" by Alan Graham, Hachette UK, (p. 13), October 29, 2010.

David Attenborough

#Nature Quotes #Earth Day Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“Superstitions are man's way of trying to control things he has no control over...”
“The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, or even love, but joy.”
“Countermovements among racists and sexists and nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table. . . . Every housewife knows that if you don't sooner or later dust . . . the whole place will be dirty again.”
“But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.”
“I think we can learn a lot about a person in the very moment that language fails them. In the very moment they they have to be more creative than they would have imagined in order to communicate. It's the very moment that they have to dig deeper than the surface to find words, and at the same time, it's a moment when they want to communicate very badly. They're digging deep and projecting out at the same time.”
“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.”
“I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?”
“Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard their freedom.”

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