"It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it."

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Source : Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

Edward Abbey

#World Quotes #Enough Quotes #Natural Quotes

“I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women. But I've never played the Bionic Woman. In 'Sarah Connor' and 'Lost,' I am not the orchestrator of what happens. I've played quite peripheral people.”
“It's not greed and ambition that makes wars--it's goodness. Wars are always fought for the best of reasons, for liberation or manifest destiny, always against tyranny and always in the best interests of humanity. So far this war, we've managed to butcher some 10,000,000 people in the interest of humanity. The next war, it seems we'll have to destroy all of man in order to preserve his damn dignity.”

Source : Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The screenplays”
“Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The first requisite of stewardship is to give ourselves to God. Thus, a logical recognition of God's absolute ownership should follow.”

Source : Stephen F. Olford (1972). “The Grace of Giving: A Biblical Study of Christian Stewardship”, p.12, Kregel Publications
“People here want the team to win and to do well. The thing is, we know when to shoot the puck.”
“I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.”
“Courage isn't about knowing the path, it's about taking the first step.”
“To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.”

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