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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
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Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of…
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
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As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…
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Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
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Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call…
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of…
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
— Jesse Jackson
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic…
— Edward Said
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
— Larry Wall
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
— Bob Cousy
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Sometimes he will sit on the carpet in front of you, looking at you with eyes so melting, so caressing and so…
— Theophile Gautier
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For a Christian to defy adversities is to "despise" chastisement. Instead of hardening himself to endure stoically, there should be a melting…
— Arthur W. Pink
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We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire…
— Jules Renard
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