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“We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to ...”
“Whats wrong with being naked?--Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston”
“You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly whyright here. Get a pen, write this down, this is importantThe world is f**ked up because I eat WonderBread preserved with form...”
“I don't think I understand that," Meg insisted. "How can you lust yourself into oblivion. ""Oh, easily," Ekaterina answered. "The lust is for things, possessions. The weapon turns on the nature of ...”
“I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realised that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.”
“The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers and the mountains and the forests of the world. ...”
“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are still too fresh. Fields of cotton stretching to the horizon - land worked, sweated, and suffered ...”
“The wild things and places belong to all of us. So while I can't fix the bigger problems of race in the United States - can't suggest a means by which I, and others like me, will always feel safe -...”
“A foolish environmentalist wants to save nature from the greed of the market by exposing it to the tragedy of the commons. A smart environmentalist wants to save nature from the tragedy of the comm...”
“Ethical vegetarians eat only plant-based food in order to show compassion toward animals and other humans and to benefit the planet.”
“Seeing that humans in modern cultures were destroying their environment for the sake of self-indulgence, the Dokkalfar focused their attention on poorer nations, whose terrain still flourished. A c...”
“One of humankind's most enduring misconceptions is that of nature's bounty... the belief that nature is such a powerful force that it is indestructible.”
“We conceived of the planet as female, an all-giving Mother Nature, just as we conceived of the female body, infinitely alterable by and for man; we serve both ourselves and our hopes for the planet...”
“…most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.”
“There are so many things we can’t do anything about if we think about generalities. Things won’t go well because there is a huge gap between the generalities and the particulars. If we see generali...”
“What’s wrong with being naked?”--Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston”
“You wanna know why the world is f**ked? This is why, this is exactly why…right here. Get a pen, write this down, this is important…The world is f**ked up because I eat WonderBread preserved with fo...”
