Holmes Rolston III quotes
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“Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.”
-- Holmes Rolston IIISource : Holmes Rolston III (2012). “A New Environmental Ethics: The Next Millennium for Life on Earth”, p.131, Routledge
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“Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live neither at the range of the infinitely small, nor at that of the infinitely large, but we might well live at the range of the infinitely complex. We live at the range of the most caring; we ourselves might embody the most capacity for caring.”
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“McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone ... science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.”
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“Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.”
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“The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.”
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“Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.”
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“The first lesson of evolution was one of conflict. The lesson now is one of kinship.”
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“Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.”
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Source : Interview with Ryan Boudinot, www.pifmagazine.com. November, 1998.
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“The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.”
Source : A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.2, Courier Corporation
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“We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.”
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