"Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a great oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ "The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion." ~ Socrates ~ "If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer: but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen." ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ "I care nothing for a mans religion whose dog or cat is not the better for it." ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ "They will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks." ~ Isaiah ~ "In books and magazines of how to be and what to see while you are being; before-and-after photographs teach how to pass from reaching to believing. We live beyond our means on other peoples dreams, and that's suceeding." ~ Janis Ian ~ "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man." ~ Charles Darwin ~ "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." ~ John Muir ~ "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~ John Muir ~ "My refusing to eat meat occasioned an inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension." ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." ~ Michelangelo ~ "Forget what life used to be. You are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see, that life will become." ~ Jackson Browne ~ "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." ~ Margaret Mead ~ "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." ~ The Dalai Lama ~ "Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose." ~ Helen Keller ~ "Life is not about finding yourself... it is about creating yourself." ~ Author unknown ~ "Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ "A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle." ~ Henry David Thoreau ~ "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt ~ "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~ John Muir ~ "How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?" ~ Charles A. Lindbergh ~ "Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it." ~ Chinese Proverb ~ "I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~ William Penn ~ "Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." ~ Albert Einstein ~ "I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being." ~ Abraham Lincoln ~ "By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world. By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive." ~ Albert Schweitzer ~ "The gods created certain kinds of being to replenish our bodies... they are the trees and the plants and the seeds." ~ Plato ~ "Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet." ~ Albert Einstein ~ "It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet." ~ Mahatma Gandhi ~ "Think of the millions of squabs that preaching, praying men and women kill and eat, with all sorts of other animals great and small, young and old, while eloquently discoursing on the coming of the blessed peaceful, bloodless millennium!" ~ John Muir ~ "You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ "I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further." ~ Mark Twain ~ "Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~ |
back to : Village News © Copyright 2005 VillageOrganics, Inc. All rights reserved. |