Fukutomi Green Quotes & Sayings

But, to love nature and to hate humanity is illogical. Humanity is part of the whole. To truly love the world is also to love human ingenuity and playfulness. Nature does not need to be cleansed of human artifacts to be beautiful or coherent. Yes, we should be less greedy, untidy, wasteful, and shortsighted. But let us not turn responsibility into self-hatred. Our biggest failing is, after all, lack of compassion for the world. Including ourselves. — David George Haskell

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another. — A. J. Jacobs

That's what faith is - that belief that there's somebody there that's going to help you and push you and be that person that is there for you when you're in your deepest, darkest moment. — Kyle Petty

Missing someone is like hearing
a name sung quietly from somewhere
behind you. Even after you know
no one is there, you keep looking back. — Tim Seibles

Paint what you see and look with your own eyes. — Gilbert Stuart

There are two ways to taste things in life: the sweet way and the bitter way. — Rawi Hage

I can always tell when Gil's been with Enki, because he moves like he might start dancing at any moment and he hardly hears a word I say to him. — Alaya Dawn Johnson

The outside world wants me to have glamour; my fans want me glamorous. I won't let them down. — Marilyn Monroe

People must learn more and more that the strength of this country is the democratic power of the trade union movement — Michael Foot

What's important to me now is to uphold my good name and achieve a fair court decision - the past cannot be recovered anyway. — Mikhail Khodorkovsky

No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books. — CM Punk

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks — Thom Yorke

I suppose in reality not a leaf goes yellow in autumn without ceasing to care about its sap and making the parent tree very uncomfortable by long growling and grumbling - but surely nature might find some less irritating way of carrying on business if she would give her mind to it. Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat little cells with ten or twenty thousand pounds each wrapped round us in Bank of England notes, and wake up, as the sphex wasp does, to find that its papa and mamma have not only left ample provision at its elbow, but have been eaten by sparrows some weeks before it began to live consciously on its own account? — Samuel Butler

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained. — Abraham Lincoln