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“Coral reefs are under assault. They are rapidly being degraded by human activities. They are over-fished, bombed and poisoned. They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient-rich sewage and fertilizer run-off. They are damaged by irresponsible tourism and are being severely stressed by the warming of the world's oceans. Each of these pressures is bad enough in itself, but together, the cocktail is proving lethal.”

“Man, even now, can do wonders to animals: my cat and dog live together in my house and seem to like it. It may have been one of man's functions to restore peace to the animal world, and if he had not joined the enemy he might have succeeded in doing so to an extent now hardly imaginable.”

Ifs Men World May Has Beens Seems Might Together House Can Do Animal Wonder Enemy Dog Creatures Cat Function Animal World Cat And Dog

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.”

Littles Made Two Country Together Lying Animal Four Becoming Creatures Greed Hungry Plenty Dirty Islands Flood

Author:Black Elk

“All Nature is linked together by invisible bonds and every organic creature, however low, however feeble, however dependent, is necessary to the well-being of some other among the myriad forms of life.”

Wells Together Form Science Creatures Lows Invisible Well Being Dependent Linked

Book:Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

Source: Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action

“Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was wanting in one in the representation of the divine goodness might be supplied by another. For goodness, which in God is simple and uniform, in creatures is manifold and divided. Thus the whole universe together participates in the divine goodness more perfectly and represents it better than any single creature.”

Whole Might Together Universe Simple Divine Creatures Goodness Divided Diverse Uniforms Representation Manifold

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

“They were all too tightly bound together, men and women, creatures wild and tame, flowers, fruits and leaves, to ask that any one be spared. As long as the whole continued, the earth could go about its business.”

Men Long Whole Earth Together Asks Flower Creatures Men And Women Fruit Bounds

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Classical virtuosity is more than technique, line, proportion, and balance. It is as if the performer and spectator come together to hold in their hands a bird with a broken wing. The creature can be felt to stir, to struggle for freedom. Its life responds to human warmth; its wing might brush your check as it flies away.”

“Sunday night meant, in the dark, wintry, rainy Midlands ... anywhere where two creatures might stand and squeeze together and spoon.... Spooning was a fine art, whereas kissing and cuddling are calf-processes.”

Art Two Might Together Night Process Dark Fine Creatures Kissing Sunday Fine Arts Spoons Rainy Calves Cuddling Sunday Night

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present. They have been accustomed to move and to meet in all manner of ways. For this reason, it came to pass that being spread abroad through a vast time and trying every sort of combination and motion, at length those come together that produce great things, like earth and sea and sky and the generation of living creatures.”

“The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.”

Thinking World Mean Whole Together Culture Creation Creatures Environmental Consideration Sustainability

Book:The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“I don't have time to devote to putting outfits together before picking up the kids. I'm a creature of habit and in that way, I tend to just go towards what works for me and what's comfortable. It's really important to be comfortable when you're running around after kids.”

Way Important Running Kids Together Habit Creatures Comfortable Outfits Creatures Of Habit

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“You have to understand that it's a very cooperative world, not only with the environment, with but our fellow human beings. If you do not cooperate, if you do not work together to keep the entire organism going, the whole thing dies, and everybody dies with it. That's a law of nature, and it's existed forever. We're one of the very few creatures that has a choice, and can intellectualize the process.”

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Author:George Lucas

“The formation of the life of a person in the womb is the work of God, and it is not merely a mechanical process but a work on the analogy of weaving or knitting: "Thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb" (psalm 139:13). The life of the unborn is the knitting of God, and what He is knitting is a human being in His own image, unlike any other creature in the universe... The destruction of conceived human life - whether embryonic, fetal, or viable - is an assault on the unique person-forming work of God.”

Humans Persons Together Mother Universe Process Human Beings Creatures Unique Destruction Human Life Abortion Assault Womb Formation Unborn Analogies Psalms Knitting Weaving

Author:John Piper

“Join with the Earth and each other, to bring new life to the land, to restore the waters, to refresh the air, to renew the forests, to care for the plants, to protect the creatures, to celebrate the seas, to rejoice in the sunlight, to sing the song of the stars, to recall our destiny, to renew our spirits, to reinvigorate our bodies, to recreate the human community, to promote justice and peace, to love our children and love one another, to join together as many and diverse expressions of one loving mystery, for the healing of the Earth and the renewal of all life.”

“The first measn by which He draws is affinity, that affinity which brings creatures of the same species together, and like to its like. With this cord of affinity He drew men to the Godhead, Whom He always resembles. In order that God may draw more to Himself, and forget His wrath.”

Men Firsts May Together Order Forget Creatures Draws Species Wrath Affinity Cords

Book:Meister Eckhart's Sermons

Source: Meister Eckhart's Sermons

“We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.”

Moments Together Actors Clear Magic Keys Creatures Aspect Odd Unexpected Components Homework Superstitious Ignite Unexpected Moments

Author:Lorraine Toussaint

“You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.”

Running Together Beautiful Women Party Saws Like You Creatures Incredibles Come Up Idiot Up To You Get Together I Like You Beautiful Creatures

Author:Artie Shaw

“Our Animal Sanctuary initiative has many layers. We are aiming to create a place where abandoned and bullied creatures come together with bullied youth. We feel that bullies have leadership abilities, albeit these abilities are totally skewed and misdirected.”

Feels Together Ability Animal Youth Creatures Abandoned Layers Initiative Bully Sanctuary Bullied

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.”

Writing Art Stills Together Practice Activity Creatures Architecture Publishing Living Creatures

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.”

Action Together Individual Planets Needed Creatures Spread Wide Our Planet Coming Together

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“I couldn’t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

People Made Done Together Saws Creatures Forgiving Clean Confusion Mess Confused Toms Justified Confusing Careless Daisies Carelessness Great Gatsby Gatsby Great Gatsby Important

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Around us the night creatures have their say. We are surrounded by a symphony of crickets and frogs. Neither of us feels the need to speak, and I suppose that is one of the qualities I find comforting in Kartik. We can be alone together.”

Needs Feels Together Night Speak Quality Creatures Cricket Comforting Symphony Frogs

Book:The Sweet Far Thing

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”

Whole Together Creatures Bounds Loyalty Something New Inexplicable

Book:Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”

Thinking Important Together Names Heaven Voice Realizing Creatures Agree Reasonable Midst Explaining

Book:Nausea

Source: Nausea

“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”

Needs Humans Two Soul Shows Home Together Creatures Sacred Unison

Book:Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

“Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.”

“This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting faces together in a ritual of affection, briefly settled in the eternal necessities of warmth, comfort, safety, crossing limbs to draw nearer - a simple daily consolation, almost too obvious, easy to forget by daylight.”

“We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male and female but both, two lovers in one body. The books downstairs were reciting their poetry to each other, rubbing together, whispering through the leather covers. Wine was flowing through the water pipes. You had caught my leaping heart in your hand like a fish.”

Heart Two Book Body Hands Together House Water Hair Lovers Quiet Creatures Female Garden Wine Dancing Males Caught Fishes Pipe Leather Whispering Earrings Reciting Two Lovers

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“Well," Peter Van Houten said, extending his hand to me. "It is at any rate a pleasure to meet such ontologically improbable creatures." I shook his swollen hand, and then he shook hands with Augustus. I was wondering what ontologically meant. Regardless, I liked it. Augustus and I were together in the Improbable Creatures Club: us and duck-billed platypuses.”

Wells Said Hands Together Pleasure Wonder Creatures Rate Clubs Peter Ducks Vans Improbable Extending Swollen Augustus Platypus Peter Van Houten

Book:The Fault in Our Stars

Source: The Fault in Our Stars

“Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.”

Should Together Remember Known Scene Creatures Should Have Sorry Bottom Loud Ruined Hello Darling Back Together Elbows Stitches Should Have Known

Author:Richard Siken

“First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last thing to mend, The middle of middle and the end of end? And finally give me the sound often heard During the search for a hard-to-find word. Now string them together, and answer me this, Which creature would you be unwilling to kiss?”

Thinking Giving Firsts Persons Ends Hard Together Lasts Lying Next Sound Answers Deals Secret Heard Middle Creatures Kissing Give Me Strings Disguise Unwilling

Author:J. K. Rowling