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“Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave too vast a gap in the human spirit? This is the unanswerable question. In the meantime, we must live in our century and wait, enduring somehow the unavoidable sadness.”

Humans Spirit Lost Waiting Animal Sadness Century Skills Plant Endure Wilderness Gaps Human Spirit Plants And Animals

Author:David Ehrenfeld

“It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And yet, the average American can name over a hundred corporate logos and ten plants. Is it a surprise that we have accepted a political system that grants personhood to corporations, and no status at all for wild rice and redwoods? Learning the names of plants and animals is a powerful act of support for them. When we learn their names and their gifts, it opens the door to reciprocity.”

“Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats.”

People Long Has Beens Ideas Use Water Animal Air Long Time Scientist Plant Preserves Rely Ecosystems Interconnected Habitat Plants And Animals Air And Water

Author:Naomi Oreskes

“When God made the planet, he made the plants, he made the animals, he made the Sun and the Moon, and he made us, and we're all interconnected, and when we disregard, disrespect, or damage any part of it, we do violence against creation.”

Made Animal Sun Violence Creation Planets Moon Plant Damage Disrespect Disregard Interconnected

Author:Naomi Oreskes

“We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on ... fish and crops and cows to eat.”

Animal Plant Fishes Atmosphere Rely Cows Oxygen Crops Plants And Animals

Author:Naomi Oreskes

“We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.”

Needs Different Animal Planets Losing Plant Rate Biodiversity Plants And Animals

Book:The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

Source: The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us

“And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.”

Wells Feelings Understanding Community Animal Rocks Missing Plant Soil Plants And Animals

Book:The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.

Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.

“The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature. People who live in nature are not romantic about it at all. They may hold spiritual beliefs about the world around them, they may have a sense of the unity of nature or the aliveness of all things, but they still kill the animals and uproot the plants in order to eat, to live. If they don't, they will die.”

People Ifs World May Stills Spiritual Order Dies Belief Natural Animal Views All Things Plant Unity Natural World Eden Spiritual Beliefs

Author:Michael Crichton

“I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.”

Thinking Humans Stars Animal Tree Moon Plant Fishes Connected Humans And Animals Plants And Trees

Author:Gloria Vanderbilt

“What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children.”

Ifs Firsts Children Whole Spirit Water Natural Animal Common Dangerous Rain Relation Plant Phenomenon Peculiar Ancestor Spares Guardian Clans Helpers Oracles Totems Natural Phenomena

Book:Totem and Taboo

Source: Totem and Taboo

“A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love.”

Source: Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity

“There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university.”

Men Process Animal Duty Research Instruments Plant University Boards Soil Strings Professors Construction Orchestra Describing Examining

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Become better listeners. Practice the art of listening in everything you do. Not just listening to yourself and your body, but listening to the people around you, listening to the plant world, the animal world. Really open your ears to what's coming at you. From there, see if you can have the ability to respond instead of react. And that usually comes with listening. If the observation and the listening are deep, then your action will be deep also.”

People Ifs World Art Body Action Ability Animal Practice Listening Ears Plant Your Body Observation Listeners Just Listen Animal World

Author:Rodney Yee

“After my return to England it appeared to me that by following the example of Lyell in Geology, and by collecting all facts which bore in any way on the variation of animals and plants under domestication and nature, some light might perhaps be thrown on the whole subject.”

Way Whole Facts Light Might Animal Subjects Example Return England Plant Following Thrown Bores Variation Collecting Geology

Book:Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

Source: Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: the Evolution

“I'm particularly struck by the neo-socialist concern for the well-being of plants, animals, lakes and rivers, rain forests and deserts - particularly when the concern for the environment appears far more intense than the concern for the human family.”

Humans Wells Animal Environment Rain Concern Rivers Plant Intense Forests Well Being Desert Lakes Socialist Human Family Lakes And Rivers Concern For The Environment

Author:Robert Sirico

“Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.”

Ifs Soul Light Earth Animal Wall Creatures Areas Plant Senses Reflecting Deficiency Plants And Animals Light Of Love

Author:Suzy Kassem

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

Men Animal Consciousness Salvation Plant Kingdoms Compromise Diminish Insects Supremacy

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“Who are we to create a heaven and hell for ourselves, excluding animals and plants in the bargain, just because we have the power to rationalize?”

Heaven Animal Hell Plant Bargains Heaven And Hell Rationalize

Author:Mark Twain

“To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it.”

Way Littles Bigs Animal Plans Eating Plant Fishes Enormous Restaurants Bugs Spiders Big Fish

Author:Woody Allen

“We think we're doing it all. But the animals are doing the real work of holding it all together, and keeping us on our path. As are the plants. It's as if we think the stars and sun and moon and the earth itself aren't doing any work. It's as if we think that all of nature is unintelligent except for us.”

Ifs Thinking Real Earth Together Stars Animal Sun Path Moon Plant Working It Real Work Unintelligent

Author:Jane Caputi

“What a difference that extra 120 ppm has made for plants, and for animals and humans that depend on them. The more carbon dioxide there is in the atmosphere, the more it is absorbed by plants of every description - - and the faster and better they grow, even under adverse conditions like limited water, extremely hot air temperatures, or infestations of insects, weeds and other pests. As trees, grasses, algae and crops grow more rapidly and become healthier and more robust, animals and humans enjoy better nutrition on a planet that is greener and greener.”

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