Quotes About Coexistence

If we knew what green wanted, we wouldn't have to choose between the Earth's interests and ours. They'd be the same!

In a sense, the earth is mounting an immune response against the human species

Horses increased in number after the commercialization of the steam engine because horsepower filled the niche below steam power. A horse stood ready to pull a cart or plow a field on command, without the delay of building up a head of steam. Energy transitions are seldom so complete that they drive out every competitor. Much of the world still relies on animals for farm work and transportation: horses, oxen, camels, llamas, water buffalo, elephants, even fellow humans.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that "us-and-them" seeing, and the dualistic thinking that results, is the foundation of almost all discontent and violence in the world.

life seems to be a collision of opposites.

There cannot be light without darkness, nor darkness without light. You must have the contrast for both to exist.

It seemed strange, the Muslim Maghrib prayer aboard a Viking ship full of atheists and pagans. Then again, Samirah's ancestors had been dealing with Vikings since the Middle Ages. I doubted this was the first time prayers to Allah had been said aboard a longship. The world, the worlds , were a lot more interesting because of constant intermixing.

A truly free society protects all faiths, and true faith protects a free society.

God expects unity, not uniformity, and we can walk arm-in-arm without seeing eye-to-eye on every issue.

It is bizarre to treat all differences as oppositions

It was Harif who'd taught him to see that Saracens, Jews and Christians were following but different paths to the one God.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

supposed to be OK again to like peace

Extending hospitality to all, even to the most cloddish, truly is the basis of civilization. The fact that the most cloddish, having nothing better to do, always show up and spoil the party for everyone else probably spells civilization's ultimate doom.

to get in on both sides, and there's space for a

Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas

Yo creo en Dios, pero no creo que a Él le importe que la gente sea protestante, católica, musulmana o budista.

La dualidad importante era entre tiranía y tolerancia, entre quienes intentaban imponer su punto de vista a todo el mundo y quienes respetaban la fe de aquellos que no estaban de acuerdo

Might there come a time when people of different faiths did not kill one another?

Dos tigres no pueden vivir en la misma montaña. Proverbio chino

All that's best of dark and bright.'

Two tigers cannot share the same mountain. Chinese proverb

I had figured out something that seemed important: every bird had its place. None was "free as a bird." A few kinds were found all over the continent, but they were the exceptions.