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“Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.”

Knows Humans Earth Values Results Ignorance Activity Survival Commitment Resources Destruction Greed Humanitarian Threatened Living Things Human Activity Lack Of Respect Destruction Of Nature

Book:My Tibet

Source: My Tibet

“Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.”

Ignorance Skills Survival Survival Skills

Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world.”

World Humans Evil Human Nature Ignorance Pride Majors Survival Threat Selfishness Stem Hostility Carelessness Willful Ignorance Selfishness And Pride

Book:The People Of The Lie

Source: The People Of The Lie

“A man is skillful at woodraft just in proportion as he approaches this balance. Knowing the wilderness can be comfortable when a less experienced man would endure hardship. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.”

Ifs Men Rooms Cases Knowing Ignorance Balance Comfortable Approach Survival Endure Arguing Drawing Reputation Proportion Wilderness Hardship Foolishness Toughness Skillful

Author:Stewart Edward White

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

Thinking Race Groups Ignorance Diversity Survival Unity Gender Patches Being Alone

Author:Maya Angelou

“What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.”

Years Lasts Changed Ignorance Depends Survival Currents

Author:Eric Schlosser

“How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.”

“Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.”