"We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures."

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Geraldine Brooks

#Dog Quotes #Animal Quotes #Elephants Quotes

“Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.”
“Though my verse but roam the air And murmur in the trees, You may discern a purpose there, As in music of the bees.”

Source : Alfred Austin (1885). “At the Gate of the Convent: And Other Poems”
“There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.”
“The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.”

Source : Okakura Kakuzo (2000). “The Book of Tea the Illustrated Classic Edition”, p.81, Tuttle Publishing
“I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally becomeâ€¦ This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House
“Peace secured by slavish submission is not peace.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.”
“People that call old leads, drive old cars.”

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