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Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit

by Al Gore

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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

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“I hold on to my adopted shore, chanting private vows: wherever I am, let me never forget to distinguish want from need. Let me be a good animal today. Let me dance in the waves of my private tide, the habits of survival and love.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

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“If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

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“Art is the antidote that can call us back from the edge of numbness, restoring the ability to feel for another.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, High Tide in Tucson : Essays from Now or Never

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“You're thinking I'm one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I'm not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.”
― Scott Adams

tags: food, humor, vegetarian, vegetarianism

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