Quotes About Awareness

It's expensive to raise a child with special needs, which people don't even think about. Emotionally it can be a struggle, but financially it's really rough.

Working with special needs children is hard.

As I grew up, I became aware that there are people with special needs out there, and I have a real connection with them.

I do want to emphasize that we've seen an explosion in the use of Google Maps and Google Earth for education. The earth is a special place. It is our home and it's why we're all here. And the ability to see what's really going on the earth, the good stuff and the bad stuff, at the level that you can, is phenomenal.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Sleeping at night is not a specialty of entrepreneurs. The entrepreneur who is sleeping soundly, something bad is happening to that person; they just don't know it's happening yet.

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We have to learn to become a new kind of entity on this world that has the maturity and the awareness to handle being a global species with the power to change our planet and use that power in a way that is conducive to the kind of global society we want to have.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.

Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

The great thing about not being American is that you don't assume you know what a Southern accent sounds like, so you have to be specific.