"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."

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Source : Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

#Travel Quotes #Nature Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“To all the guys who broke our hearts - we wouldn't appreciate what we have today without you.”
“I try to not make safe choices, but I also like to do stuff which is interesting and is sort of exciting in some way and accessible.”

Source : Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 19, 2009.
“It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself”
“It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do”
“The Nothing is spreading," groaned the first. "It's growing and growing, there's more of it every day, if it's possible to speak of more nothing. All the others fled from Howling Forest in time, but we didn't want to leave our home. The Nothing caught us in our sleep and this is what it did to us." "Is it very painful?" Atreyu asked. "No," said the second bark troll, the one with the hole in his chest. "You don't feel a thing. There's just something missing. And once it gets hold of you, something more is missing every day. Soon there won't be anything left of us.”
“The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.”
“grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us grief is a house that disappears each time someone knocks at the door or rings the bell a house that blows into the air at the slightest gust that buries itself deep in the ground while everyone is sleeping grief is a house where no on can protect you where the younger sister will grow older than the older one where the doors no longer let you in or out”

Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.55, Penguin
“What I could never escape was Germany, and being German.”

Source : Georg Baselitz, Norman Rosenthal (2007). “Baselitz”, Royal Academy of Art

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