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“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”

Persons Animal Plant Harm Minerals

Author:Nhat Hanh

“We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.”

Humans States Animal Spring Green Plant Forgotten Former Recalls Being Human Minerals Plant Life Early Spring

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.”

People Wanted Animal Hell Car Fit Blow Vietnam Vegetables Minerals Ashtrays

Book:Dispatches

Source: Dispatches

“Yet the leaf is the chief product and phenomenon of Life: this is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live. Some people have strange ideas that they live by money. They think energy is generated by the circulation of coins. Whereas the world is mainly a vast leaf colony, growing on and forming a leafy soil, not a mere mineral mass: and we live not by the jingling of our coins, but by the fullness of our harvests.”

“Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”

Humans May Long Earth Water Animal Pay Race Air Diversity Resources Clean Plant Species Weather Human Race Soil Predictable Minerals Dividends Clean Air Air And Water Mineral Resources

Author:Alex Steffen

“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”

Ifs Made Shows Eye Water Nature Animal Sky Events Fields Color Blue Green Paint Vegetables Vary Superfluous Minerals Hue

Author:Leigh Hunt

“Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.”

Men Individual Animal Plant Species Divided Minerals

Book:The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

Source: The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development

“Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul.”

Men Humans Looks Soul Nature Animal Rocks He Man Angel Down And Plant Beast Vegetables Lenses Human Soul Minerals Swarms Ascending

Author:C. A. Bartol

“The offshore ocean area under U.S. jurisdiction is larger than our land mass, and teems with plant and animal life, mineral resources, commerce, trade, and energy sources.”

Energy Animal Land Source Ocean Mass Resources Areas Trade Plant Commerce Minerals Plants And Animals Animal Life Energy Sources Jurisdiction Totems Offshore Mineral Resources

Author:Tom Allen