Humanity And Nature Quotes

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  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

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein

  Funny, Hilarious, Education

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Faith, Hope

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion.

  Anatole France

  Fashion, Thinking, Fools Day

  "Le Petit Pierre". Book by Anatole France, 1885.

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  Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "A Small Drop of Ink: A Collection of Inspirational and Moving Quotations of the Ages". Book by Linda Pendleton, 2003.

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• Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

  Margaret Mead

  Human Nature, Aggressive, Aggression

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.134, Berghahn Books

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• I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Fate, Ideas, Humanity

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• Humanity has passed through a long history of one-sidedness and of a social condition that has always contained the potential of destruction, despite its creative achievements in technology. The great project of our time must be to open the other eye: to see all-sidedly and wholly, to heal and transcend the cleavage between humanity and nature that came with early wisdom.

  Murray Bookchin

  Eye, Technology, Long

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• The tree is made by nature, mathematics by people. And combining the two is creating this beautiful alliance between humanity and nature. That's why my forests are mathematical expansion systems, all of them.

  Agnes Denes

  Beautiful, Two, Creating

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The vision of Hinduism is unity in diversity. First, Hinduism lovingly embraces all alien elements; second, it tries to assimilate them; third, it tries to expand itself as a whole, with a view to serving humanity and nature.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Views, Diversity, Humanity

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• CEOs of fossil energy companies know what they are doing and are aware of long-term consequences of continued business as usual. In my opinion, these CEOs should be tried for high crimes against humanity and nature.

  James Hansen

  Science, Long, Humanity

  "Twenty years later: tipping points near on global warming" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2008.

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• ...chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to [should] be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature; [Hansen] accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

  James Hansen

  Cancer, Smoking, Humanity

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• It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world

  Dalai Lama

  Dream, People, Humanity

  "Nobel lecture". www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1989.

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