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  • #1
    John Marsden
    “We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”
    ― John Marsden, The Dead of Night
    tags: ignorance, nature
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    John Keats
    “The poetry of the earth is never dead.”
    ― John Keats
    tags: environment, nature, poetry
    1076 likes

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    Albert Einstein
    “Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”
    ― Albert Einstein
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  • #4
    The earth has its music for those who will listen
    “The earth has its music for those who will listen”
    ― Reginald Vincent Holmes, Fireside Fancies
    tags: misattributed-george-santayana
    2665 likes

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  • #5
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
    131 likes

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    J. Krishnamurti
    “Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.”
    ― J. Krishnamurti
    tags: competition, education, learning, teaching
    537 likes

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    Amos Bronson Alcott
    “The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.”
    ― Amos Bronson Alcott
    tags: teaching
    70 likes

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  • #8
    Charles William Eliot
    “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
    ― Charles W. Eliot
    tags: books, friends, reading, teachers
    13928 likes

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  • #9
    Aristotle
    “Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: greek, mentors, philosophy, teachers
    1523 likes

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  • #10
    Heather Brewer
    “Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”
    ― Heather Brewer, Eighth Grade Bites
    tags: humor, teachers
    323 likes

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  • #11
    “There comes a day when you realise turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realise there's so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.”
    ― Zayn Malik
    tags: malik, one-direction, zayn, zayn-malik
    901 likes



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