"From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP"

-- Tony Juniper

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“To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.”
“We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.”
“I think he [Sir Alex Ferguson] may have even surpassed the achievements of Matt Busby for Manchester United.”
“Where I came from, no one was a writer.”

Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.
“A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between a person and a kid is unconditional; but the relationship between adults, to each other, is conditional, in a sense. But that condition can be the best kind.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“I like to see and understand a space, to hear everyone's point of view in order to respond to many different needs.”
“For me a page of good prose is where one hears the rain. A page of good prose is when one hears the noise of battle.... A page of good prose seems to me the most serious dialogue that well-informed and intelligent men and women carry on today in their endeavor to make sure that the fires of this planet burn peaceably.”
“It's a great feeling as a coach to see your athlete run well, hearing the oohs and aahs as she picks people off.”

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