"We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do."

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Source : Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

#Earth Quotes #Guests Quotes #Forgotten Quotes

“I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was almost worn out, the screws being rusted with sweat from my hands and forehead, and my only remaining eye-piece being cracked... Fortunately invaluable oil-imraersion object-glass remained good.”
“There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.”

Source : Boris Vian (2001). “I spit on your graves”, Canongate Books
“I miss hanging out with my friends, getting in a little trouble. I have to be so guarded now.”
“I love Viacom. I love CBS. And so I don't want to die. I have a will to live. The same will to win that I've always had. And â€” I'm gonna fight death as long as I can. I like it here. I don't want to go anywhere else.”
“Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.”
“The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.”

Source : Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate
“We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.”

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