"Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will reduce the ability of ecosystems to deliver vital services to human populations. The Red List gives all of us a practical tool for raising awareness of the biodiversity crisis and for forging new partnerships within the international community."

-- Achim Steiner

#Animal Quotes #Ecosystems Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 288, 1895.
“I had that upbringing. Of watching 'Bonanza,' watching 'Hee Haw,' which both black and white would watch. I rode horses. I did gun spinning as a kid. I do these things.”
“The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.”
“Photorealism says: to fool your eye. That isn't what I've been interested in doing.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Environmentalism is not about the environment. It is about people. It is about a vision for a better life-for people.”
“I've quit drugs and drinking and been into healthy stuff like yoga.”
“Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can”
“Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. â€¦ Even when companies create seemingly significant pay differentiation between low and high performers, the actual cash increase is insufficient to sustain performance â€“ or it drives the wrong behaviors. â€¦ Effective management is a system, not a pay plan. The mistake is that companies try to solve all their problems with pay.”

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