"Fishing provides time to think, and reason not……" — Carl Safina
"Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life."
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25 Quotes by Carl Safina
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We are blessed with a magnificent and miraculous world ocean on this planet. But we are also stressing it in…
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We put the murderer in charge of the crime scene.
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If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a…
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The ocean is not just blank blue space but rather the habitat for amazing wildlife, and we have to take…
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For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision…
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Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time.…
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[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up.…
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If you look right, you can see the whole world from wherever you happen to be.
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A painting is nothing more than light reflected from the surface of a pigment-covered canvas. But a great painter can…
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Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine…
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The compass of compassion asks not what is good for me? but what is good? Not what is best for…
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Whether on'e special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from…
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