"We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get……" — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
"We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about phytoplankton. All these tiny mechanisms provide the preconditions of our planetary life. To say we do not care is to say in the most literal sense that "we choose death.""
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Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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11 Quotes by Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
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[To the cultures of Asia and the continent of Africa] it is the Western impact which has stirred up the…
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The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can…
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On the one hand, we are faced with the stewardship of this beautiful, subtle, incredibly delicate, fragile planet. On the…
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There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done.
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Business shouldn't be like sports, separating the men from the women.
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Every single ancient wisdom and religion will tell you the same thing - don't live entirely for yourself, live for…
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To me, one of the proofs that there is a moral governance in the universe is the fact that when…
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To act without rapacity, to use knowledge with wisdom, to respect interdependence, to operate without hubris and greed are not…
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If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition,…
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