Creatures Quotes - Page 34

You are pure-hearted and lovely, and you have never done a moment's wrong. But you are a living creature, born to make a real life, however it cracks your heart.

Margo Lanagan

Real, Heart, Lovely

Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House

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Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

Eleanor Lerman

Baby, Growing Up, Memories

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Attitudes toward other creatures is conditioned by one's level of security within the universe.

Mamphela Ramphele

Attitude, Levels, Security

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Bookshops are infested with ideas. Books are quivering, murmuring creatures.

Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Book, Ideas, Murmuring

Rodrigo Rey Rosa (2014). “Margellos World Republic of Letters: Severina”, p.17, Yale University Press

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Obstacles can arise from good as well as bad circumstances, but they should never deter or overpower you. Be like the earth, which supports all living creatures indiscriminately, without distinguishing good from bad. The earth is simply there. Your practice should be strengthened by the difficult situations you encounter, just as a bonfire in a strong wind is not blown out, but blazes even brighter.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Strong, Wind, Practice

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To feel overflowing love and almost unbearable compassion for all living creatures is the best way to fulfil the wishes of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. Even if for the moment you cannot actually help a sentient being in an external way, meditate on love and compassion constantly over the months and years until compassion is knit inseparably into the very fabric of your mind.

Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

Compassion, Years, Mind

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Whites already know blacks are stupid, violent, destructive apelike creatures. That is why Whites move away from them -- always.

Alex Linder

Stupid, Moving, Violent

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I refuse to eat animals because I cannot nourish myself by the sufferings and by the death of other creatures. I refuse to do so, because I suffered so painfully myself that I can feel the pain of others by recalling my own sufferings.

David Sztybel

Pain, Animal, Suffering

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The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.

Eliot Coleman

Technology, Garden, Erosion

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Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.

Tom Cotton

Simple, Men, Problem

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People never cease to project on to God their individual and collective obsessions, so that they can appropriate and make use of him. But they ought to understand that God cannot be apprehended from without, as if he were an object, for with him there is no outside nor can the Creator be set side by side with the creature.

Olivier Clement

People, Use, Sides

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Appearances are there to be ignored, for the biggest hearts may reside in the smallest and unlikeliest of creatures. Those who fail to look beyond the surface will never encounter true virtue - not in others and certainly not in themselves.

Markus Heitz

Heart, Encounters, Looks

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What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

John Vaillant

Whales, Answers, Lions

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I think it’s the right moment to talk about it because it is part of a revolutionary perspective - how can we not only discover more compassionate relations with human beings but how can we develop compassionate relations with the other creatures with whom we share this planet and that would mean challenging the whole capitalist industrial form of food production.

Angela Davis

Mean, Thinking, Perspective

"On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis". Interview with Grace Lee Boggs, www.radioproject.org. February 20, 2012.

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A church is something very beautiful. It is nice when people feel happy in it. But I am not a religious man. Look at us, and then at the infinity of space. We are rather small insignificant creatures, wouldn’t you say?

Oscar Niemeyer

Beautiful, Religious, Nice

Oscar Niemeyer (2003). “Oscar Miemeyer, a Legend of Modernism”

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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed We need wilderness preserved — as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds — because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.

Wallace Stegner

Country, Character, Mean

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The line that connects the bombing of civilian populations to the mountain removed by strip mining ... to the tortured prisoner seems to run pretty straight. We're living, it seems, in the culmination of a long warfare - warfare against human beings, other creatures and the Earth itself.

Wendell Berry

Running, Long, Mountain

Wendell Berry's Commencement Address at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, May 14, 2005.

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Why should the peculiarities of human consciousness be the narrow standard by which other creatures are judged?

Gary Snyder

Consciousness, Should, Standards

Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not be able to live on it for long.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Long, Able, Facts

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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse - that cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory! This at least is one joy that must have been known by almost every living creature.

Richard Adams

Memories, Heart, Clouds

Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.59, Oneworld Publications

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Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Heart, Devil, Littles

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Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?

Barbara Ehrenreich

God, Mom, Thinking

Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Marcus Aurelius

God, Truth, Thinking

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Most animals are like the unfortunate Gregor Samsa after metamorphosis. They are Kafka-creatures, organisms with rich thoughts and emotions but no system for translating what they think into something that they can express to others.

Marc Hauser

Animal, Thinking, Emotion

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I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Fashion, Animal, Men

Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.325, Penguin UK

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