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Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
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We are not lacking in the dynamic forces needed to create the future. We live immersed in a sea of energy beyond…
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Everything is integral and interacts with everything else. This means that nothing is itself without everything else. There is a commonality, an…
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can't…
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The natural world is the larger sacred community to which we belong. To be alienated from this community is to become destitute…
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Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity.…
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Every being has its own interior, its self, its mystery, its numinous aspect. To deprive any being of this sacred quality is…
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The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human…
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The universe must be experienced as the Great Self. Each is fulfilled in the other: the Great Self is fulfilled in the…
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We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the…
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The child awakens to a universe. The mind of the child to a world of meaning. Imagination to a world of beauty.…
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If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished…
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When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich…
— Andrew Jackson
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As a Buddhist, I view death as a normal process, a reality that I accept will occur as long as I remain…
— Dalai Lama
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The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the…
— Van Jones
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There is no proof. There are no authorities whatever. No president, Academy, Court of Law, Congress or Senate on this earth has…
— Wilhelm Reich
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The only thing worth having in an earthly existence is a sense of humor.
— Lincoln Steffens
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Home is the bottom line of life, the anvil upon which attitudes and convictions are hammered out the single most influential force…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
— Muhammad Asad
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In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and…
— Thomas Berry
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A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.
— Tom Robbins
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be…
— John Stuart Mill
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The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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