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“Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.”

Knows May Earth Nature Animal Responsibility Known Generations Late Plant Too Late Capability Organisms Insects Future Generation Habitat

Book:Worlds in Harmony

Source: Worlds in Harmony

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”

Ifs Inspirational Long Nature Inspiring Known Fame Native American Criminal Mind Fickle

Author:Marilyn Monroe

“If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.”

“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.”

Wells Heart Grows Difficult Nature Education Known Sad Stones Prejudice Firm Soil Weed Well Known Cultural Diversity Conventionality Tolerance And Diversity

Book:Jane Eyre

Source: Jane Eyre

“Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade.”

Knows Facts Nature Animal Effort Known Prove Trade Faithful Inferiors Keepers Resourceful

Book:Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

Source: Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition

“The concept known as bal tashchit--'Do no destroy'--has a special significance in Jewish tradition...We are constantly being warned in our faith that the capricious, thoughtless, wasteful destruction of the elements and creatures of the earth is wrong...We should remind ourselves daily of our responsibility to all aspects of creation.”

Should Earth Nature Animal Responsibility Known Special Creation Creatures Elements Concepts Aspect Tradition Destruction Significance Capricious Jewish Tradition Creatures Of The Earth

Author:David Geffen

“Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.”

Wells Law Science Nature Known Environment Air Environmental Endless Combination Repetition Well Known Variation

Book:Essays, lectures and orations

Source: Essays, lectures and orations

“Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientific inquirer, mathematics plays in some respects a very limited, in others a very important part. As regards the limitations, it is merely necessary to refer to the sciences connected with living matter, and to the ologies generally, to see that the facts and their connections are too indistinctly known to render mathematical analysis practicable, to say nothing of the complexity.”

“Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.”

Science Force Nature Results Known Mystery Events Solutions Solve Mysterious Forces Of Nature

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace