Quotes About Coexistence

religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded; anyone helping to preserve those distinctions is postponing that ideal; and you are certainly helping to preserve them.

My favorite spot on earth is only a seven-minute walk from where I live, Nero Wolfe's house on West 35th Street: Herald Square, where you can see more different kinds of people in ten minutes than anywhere else I know of. One day I saw the top cock of the Mafia step back to let a Sunday-school teacher from Iowa go first through the revolving door of the world's largest department store. If you ask how I knew who they were, I didn't, but that's what they looked like.

The ideal human agreement is one in which distinctions of race and color and religion are totally disregarded;

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

las serpientes viven con el veneno adentro de sus cuerpos sin haberlo decidido

Most importantly we have learned that from here on it is success for all or none, for it is experimentally proven by physics that "unity is plural and at minimum two" - the complementary but not mirror-imaged proton and neutron. You and I are inherently different and complimentary. Together we average as zero - that is, as eternity.

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Legal segregation was long gone, but a strong tradition prevailed in both communities that it was best to live separately.

How many wild animals can be sustainably killed for the many millions of pets that people keep?

There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.

Berries may compete to be eaten more than animals compete for the berries.

Now they need only learn what life wants from humans. It's a big question, to be sure. Too big for people alone. But people aren't alone, and they never have been.

She has seen dieback across the West. Aspens are withering. Grazed on by everything with hooves, cut off from rejuvenating fire, whole groves are vanishing. Now she sees a forest, spreading across these mountains since before humans left Africa, giving way to second homes. She sees it in one great glimpse of flashing gold: trees and humans, at war over the land and water and atmosphere. And she can hear, louder than the quaking leaves, which side will lose by winning.

A tree is a wondrous thing that shelters, feeds, and protects all living things. It even offers shade to the axmen who destroy it. And with those words, she has her book's end.

But people aren't alone, and they never have been.

The bird and the fish may fall in love but where will they build their nest?

That's the trouble with people, their root problem. Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next.

Everything in the forest is the forest. Competition is not separable from endless flavors of cooperation.

plants are willful and crafty and after something, just like people.

This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived.

Six different kinds of forest all around us. Seventeen hundred flowering plants. More tree species than in all of Europe. Thirty kinds of salamander, for God's sake. Sol 3, that little blue dot, had a lot going for it, when you could get away from the dominant species long enough to clear your head. Above us, a raven the size of an Oz winged monkey flew up into a white pine.