"The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in the fabric; it can even, after a time, cope with major disasters like floods, fires, and earthquakes. What nature cannot cope with is the steady undermining of its fabric by the activities of man."

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Source : Gerald Durrell (1989). “The Amateur Naturalist”, Alfred A. Knopf

Gerald Durrell

#Men Quotes #Fire Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes

“To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere.”

Source : "Futurism" edited by Didier Ottinger; Centre Pompidou / 5 Continents Editions, Milan, (p. 172), 2008.
“Developing a prototype early is the number one goal for our designers, or anyone else who has an idea, for that matter. We don't trust it until we can see it and feel it.”
“We must live in the radiance of tomorrow, as our ancestors have suggested in their tales. For what is yet to come tomorrow has possibilities, and we must think of it, the simplest glimpse of that possibility of goodness. That will be our strength. That has always been our strength.”

Source : "The Brilliance of Ishmael Beah" by Nina Sankovitch, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2014.
“I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.”
“I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.”
“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.”
“Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak... Non-violence is hard work.”
“We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.139, Penguin

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