"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

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Source : Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Rachel Carson

#Nature Quotes #Zoos Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.”
“Christians pretty much live like everybody else, they just sprinkle a little Jesus in along the way.”
“A problem solved is a problem caused.”
“We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60
“People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them.”

Source : Jean Monnet (1978). “Memoirs”
“Know or listen to those who know.”
“I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.”
“Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.”

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