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#1

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: animals, ethics, gandhi, morals

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#2

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning

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#3

“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war

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#4

“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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#5

“He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.”
― William Blake

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#6

“If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed,
counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will
give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.”
― Lin Yutang

tags: food

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#7

“Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.”
― George Monbiot

tags: climate, ecology, environment, progress

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#8

“We are often told we are materialistic. It seems to me, we are not materialistic enough. We have a disrespect for materials. We use it quickly and carelessly.

If were genuinely materialistic people, we would understand where materials come from and where they go to.

But, at the moment, the entire global economy seems to be built on the model of digging things up from one hole in the ground on one side of the earth, transporting them around the world, using them for a few days, and sticking them in a hole in the ground on the other side of the world.”
― George Monbiot

tags: bbc, human-footprint, monbiot

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#9

“Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.”
― George Monbiot, Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning

tags: 172, ethical-behaviour

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#10

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
― Gary Snyder

tags: conservation, home, nature

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#11

“O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!”
― Gary Snyder

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#12

“Three-fourths of philosophy and literature is the talk of people trying to convince themselves that they really like the cage they were tricked into entering.”
― Gary Snyder

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#13

“If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk,
Sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.”
― Nanao Sakaki

tags: japanese-poets, serenity, spirituality

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#14

“In this huge old occidental culture our teaching elders are books. Books are our grandparents!”
― Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild

tags: books, culture, elders, grandparents, western-culture

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#15

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm

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#16

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin

tags: freedom, liberty, privacy, safety, security

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#17

“You may delay, but time will not.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: procrastination, time, time-quotes

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#18

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life, wordplay

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#19

“Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.”
― Basho

tags: poetry

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#20

“The journey itself is my home.”
― Matsuo Basho

tags: travel

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#21

“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: chaos, control, ego

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#22

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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#23

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: truth, values

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#24

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
― Terence McKenna

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#25

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirational

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#26

“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#27

“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
― Alan Watts

tags: civilization, culture, names, power-of-words, responsibility, wisdom

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#28

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
― Alan Watts

tags: life, play, work

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#29

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Culture of Counter-Culture: Edited Transcripts

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#30

“Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: illegal, psychedelics

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