Quotes About Coexistence

We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we're all in the same boat.

You can learn a lot about yourself by getting to know another species. Even humans.

the supreme lord and the individual soul are sitting in the body like 2 friendly birds in a tree

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

For two people in a marriage to live together day after day is unquestionably the one miracle the Vatican has overlooked.

But knowing that moose had returned to Vermont in his lifetime pleased him enormously. It was the idea that things repaired themselves, that if you backed off a little and didn't ask too much of the world then it would meet you halfway.

the mountain and the television weren't so much in different time zones as in different dimensions.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.

While no Muslim worthy of his name would lose his respect for God, the Prophet Muhammad, and other symbols of Islam, he might well refrain from using legal prosecution or violent reaction to those who do not show the same respect. My basis for this claim is nothing other than the holiest source of Islam, the Quran.

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.

It takes all kinds to make the world go 'round. If everyone was straight-laced and uptight, it would sure be a drag. We need a little tug of war in society.

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

We shall all respect the principles of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act of oppression to any portion of the people.

If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature, we would never kill an animal for our appetite; we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies.

I'd rather it to just be not so much men's wrestling and women's wrestling but that we're all on the same playing field.

I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'

Qualquer casualidade da luta é erro deles, não nosso. Nós não adotamos a violência, mas não negamos sua existência. Como podemos negá-la, se seus efeitos estão ao nosso redor?

And just as you supported and carried out a policy of not wanting to share the earth with the Jewish people and the people of a number of other nations – as though you and your superiors had any right to determine who should and who should not inhabit the world – we find that no one, that is, no member of the human race, can be expected to want to share the earth with you. This is the reason, and the only reason, you must hang.

No human life, not even the life of the hermit in nature's wilderness, is possible without a world which directly or indirectly testifies to the presence of other human beings.

A divine people lives in a world in which it is the born persecutor of all other weaker species, or the born victim of all other stronger species. Only the rules of the animal kingdom can possibly apply to its political destinies.