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- One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on…
- I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.…
- Why would anyone believe it is possible to lay down such barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for…
- The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.
- Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,…
- These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes-nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect,…
- There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings Then a strange blight…
- But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible…
- We are not truly civilized if we concern ourselves only with the relation of man to man. What is important is the relation of man…
- For all at last return to the sea- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the ever-flowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
- Here and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same…
- In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead…
- Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological…
- If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift…
- A Who's Who of pesticides is therefore of concern to us all. If we are going to live so intimately with these chemicals eating and…
- If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle