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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric delicate & destructible, yet miraculously tough & resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper
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Ruby Forshaw
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Life is a miracle beyond our comprehension, and we should reverence it even where we have to struggle against it... The resort to weapons such as insecticides to control it is a proof of insufficient knowledge and of an incapacity so to guide the processes of nature that brute force becomes unnecessary. Humbleness is in order; there is no need for scientific conceit here.
— Nov 07, 2026 07:26AM
Ruby Forshaw
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Who has the right to decide that supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight? The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power, he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is deep and imperative
— Oct 30, 2026 05:42AM
Ruby Forshaw
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'By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being?'
— Oct 25, 2026 02:49PM
Ruby Forshaw
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'the obligation to endure gives us the right to know' ☕
— Oct 20, 2026 01:02AM