Quotes about Coexistence

To live with another within the compass of one heart: I must move to the side, must make myself small, so that the other has space and does not feel crowded.

it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we are part of the animal kingdom, not separated from it.

The people understand that protecting the forest is not just for wildlife but for their own future, and so they have become our partners in conservation.

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

The Israelis and the Palestinians don't know each other. They live right there, but they've become strangers. And it makes it much more difficult to make peace with a person you really don't know, and that's an obstacle in itself.

we must not speak or think of the land alone or of the people alone, but always and only of both together. If we want to save the land, we must save the people who belong to the land. If we want to save the people, we must save the land the people belong to.

The environment," as we call it, is intimately with us. We're in it. It's in us. But also we are it, and it is us.

It might prove out to be," Athey said, "that if we can't live together we can't live at all. Did you ever think about that?

it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.