Biopiracy Quotes & Sayings

Because without music there can't be any dreams, and without dreams there can't be any fairy tales, and without fairy tales there can't be any courage, and without courage no one would be able to bear any sorrows, and — Fredrik Backman

History belongs above all to the man ... who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life. — Albert Einstein

Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before. — Warren Spector

May the love in your heart overshadow any sorrows, and may you always know with a deep inner certainty, how loved you truly are. — Jodi Livon

When the power of love overtakes all other power then we will find the true peace on earth. — Debasish Mridha

My first job was in a nursing home - a terrible place in retrospect. It was in an old house, and the residents were so lonely. People rarely visited them. I only stayed there a couple of months, but it made a strong impression on me. — Kim Edwards

A mother's hardest to forgive.
Life is the fruit she longs to hand you
Ripe on a plate. And while you live,
Relentlessly she understands you. — Phyllis McGinley

Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use. — Vandana Shiva

Everyone deals with the problems of life, but remember the goal is to solve them to get new ones. — Orrin Woodward

I have called this phenomenon of stealing common knowledge and indigenous science "biopiracy" and "intellectual piracy." According to patent systems we shouldn't be able to patent what exists as "prior art." But the United States patent system is somewhat perverted. First of all, it does not treat the prior art of other societies as "prior art." Therefore anyone from the United States can travel to another country, find out about the use of a medicinal plant, or find a seed that farmers use, come back here, claim it as an invention or an innovation. — Vandana Shiva

You are important to this earth. If you were meant to journey alone, you would not have friends... — Virginia Alison

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift. — Albert Einstein

The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me, — Carrie Brownstein

Never regret something that once made you smile. — Amber Deckers