Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
Category Archives: Quotations
Wise Words: Lawana Blackwell
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
Wise Words: Henry David Thoreau: attention
The greatest compliment that was ever paid to me was when one asked me what I thought and attended to my answer.
Wise Words: Honore de Balzac
It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Wise Words: Ralph Waldo Emerson: what you do
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Wise Words: Friedrich Nietzsche: experiments
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions—as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Wise Words: G.K. Chesterton
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
Wise Words: Chinese proverb: memory
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Wise Words: Rabbinical saying
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
Wise Words: Henry van Dyke
There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
