Flora And Fauna Quotes

• For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Color, Long, People

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• Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and all its living forms, its mountains and valleys, the rain, the wind, and all the flora and fauna of the planet are telling us.

  Thomas Berry

  Rain, Wind, Listening

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• Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna.

  Francois Mauriac

  Law, Names, Planets

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• Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Flower, Openness

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Imagination, Quality

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• I would request that my body in death be buried not cremated, so that the energy content contained within it gets returned to the earth, so that flora and fauna can dine upon it, just as I have dined upon flora and fauna during my lifetime

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Energy, Body, Earth

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• The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Light, Desert

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.

  Ilana Mercer

  Nantucket, Privilege, Politician

  "In Defense of the Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Offering, Body, Buried

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 13, 2011.

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• There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Dream, Men, Thinking

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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• I do remain optimistic that one day the world will realise that carbon dioxide is more of a friend than an enemy to the earth's flora and fauna, and I do seriously believe that, given the extraordinary complexity of the natural forces controlling our climate, which have done so for millions of years, the only sensible policy response to the natural process of climate change is prudent and cost-effective adaptation.

  Nick Minchin

  Believe, Optimistic, Years

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• I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Growing Up, Nice

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Climbing, Practice

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

  Edward Abbey

  Flower, Space, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you had to grow up with rats scampering in your backyard, because the city services were cut in half and the population in your neighborhood doubled, then that also is going to mean that the flora and fauna are going to grow as well. So that's a part of it. That's why I can't go to Hindu countries where they respect rats and mice, and I can't go camping.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us resolve to be patriots always, nationalists never. Let us love our country, but pledge allegiance to the earth and to the flora and fauna and human life that it supports - one planet indivisible, with clean air,... soil and water; with liberty, justice and peace for all.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Love, Life, Country

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

  Ilana Mercer

  Wind Farms, Sound, Backyards

  "In Defense Of The Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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