"Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it."

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Source : Gerald Durrell (2011). “Catch Me a Colobus”, p.165, Pan Macmillan

Gerald Durrell

#Writing Quotes #Animal Quotes #World Quotes

“In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.”

Source : Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying,”
“The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing.Â It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.”
“The Church is called to draw near to every person, beginning with the poorest and those who suffer.”
“At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.”
“It's so important to embrace what you have because if you don't, that can be the root of very self-destructive habits, which I think people waste a lot of energy on.”
“It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.”
“It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.”

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