Rachel Zeskind Quotes
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My favorite quote to try to live by is - Be the change you want to see in the world'. 'I want to make a difference in my community, nation, and the world, and I feel it is important to do so. We are all connected, we do effect each other, we are one. We are human and I think a lot of us forget to act from a place of humanity and unity. There are days I wake up and am guilty of this..but not today, and hopefully not tomorrow.
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Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely.
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Because I was providing parts that weren't available anywhere in the world, within two years it became international and in the last four years I think I've penetrated 23 countries.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that we use it so little.
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Under the philosophy that now seems to guide our destinies, nothing must get in the way of the man with the spray gun.
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Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
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an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money, at whatever cost to others, is seldom challenged.
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If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life
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There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
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One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?
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For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves
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They want to see you in front of them, shake hands or bow. Whereas domestically, you can get by using the Web or the phone for sales.
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Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life
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I recognized the need for certain parts that were not available in the open market.
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I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children, I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchant-ments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.
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If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder without any such gift from the fairies, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in
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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be
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In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference
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They'll save their own habitat and save the beauty of our natural areas. We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road / the one less traveled by / offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.
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My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.
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Be not deceived by the complications of the world..instead always follow the passions in your heart. - on vision.
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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.
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Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.
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Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.
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No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.
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Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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I am always more interested in what I am about to do than in what I have already done.
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.
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The "control of nature" is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man.
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
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Beginnings are apt to be shadowy and so it is the beginnings of the great mother life, the sea.
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It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks.. the public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road and it can only do so when in full possession of the facts..".
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For all at last returns to the sea -- to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end.
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It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.
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This is the most powerful medium in which to reach into someone's heart and touch their soul. - On the power and purpose of television and film.
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Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
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In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.
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If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
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Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
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