"Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live."

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Source : Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge

Holmes Rolston III

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“Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.”
“Within the child lies the fate of the future.”
“During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did the Arabs, if we take this term to mean all those whose mother-tongue was Arabic, and not merely those living in the Arabian peninsula. For centuries, Arabic was the language of learning, culture and intellectual progress for the whole of the civilized world with the exception of the Far East. From the IXth to the XIIth century there were more philosophical, medical, historical, religiuos, astronomical and geographical works written in Arabic than in any other human tongue.”
“I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.”
“History tells me that when the Russians come to a country they don't go back.”
“I'm insecure about everything, because... I'm never going to look in the mirror and see this blond, blue-eyed girl. That is my idea of what I'd like to look like.”
“Communism is an aspiration, an aspiration is an ideal, a dream, a longing of something that would be perfect, but hard to build because it has to clash with human nature and against the egotism of humans and the egotism of the elites which usually try to guarantee their own interests above those of their nations and of their own people. But they are the ones that prevail because they have the economic power, the political power and the military power.”
“And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to.”

Source : "INTERVIEW: A Kinder, Gentler Neil LaBute? Getting Romantic With 'Possession'" by Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. August 14, 2002.

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