"For each of us, then, the challenge and……" — Carl Safina
"For each of us, then, the challenge and opportunity is to cherish all life as the gift it is, envision it whole, seek to know it truly, and undertake-with our minds, hearts and hands-to restore its abundance. It is said that where there's life there's hope, and so no place can inspire us with more hopefulness than that great, life-making sea-that singular, wondrous ocean covering the blue planet."
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25 Quotes by Carl Safina
Carl Safina has 25 quotes on this site.
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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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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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Economists don't seem to have noticed that the economy sits entirely within the ecology.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
— Hannah Arendt
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
— Saint Basil
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
— Josh Billings
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
— Eileen Caddy
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
— Richard Sibbes
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I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the…
— Jeffrey Skoll
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
— Rudy Giuliani
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
— Cesar Chavez
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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