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February 2017
"Depression is the inability to construct a future." - Rollo May
"The USDA is not our ally here. We have to take matters into our own hands, not only by advocating for a better diet for everyone - and that's the hard part - but by improving our own. And that happens to be quite easy. Less meat, less junk, more plants." - Mark Bittman
"I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire." - Steven Tyler
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" I want to thank every single one of you for being here today from the bottom of my heart, because I promise you that in these days to come I will, be closing my eyes and remembering this view to remind myself that I am not alone, that we are not alone, that we come together....." - Kerry Washington, Women's March Los Angeles 01.21.17
"Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species." - Lewis Thomas
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." Benjamin Franklin
"What we see out there is an affordable housing crisis, particularly in the rental market in cities big and small, and we don't have the resources necessary to fill that gap." - Julian Castro
"For the first time we can perceive something of the real proportion of features and events on the stage of the whole world, and may seek a formula which shall express certain aspects, at any rate, of geographical causation in universal history." - Halford Mackinder
"Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me". - Carlos Fuentes
"After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper." - Dean Koontz Breathless
"We all insist – hope? – that we haven’t written our best works yet, and we all harbour deep, almost religious faith, in our most dismissed or despised efforts." - Edward Albee 2007 Guardian UK interview
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson
"Too Bad we don't have marshmallows. This is an amazing fire." Howard emerged through the smoke behind the Edilio." - Michael Grant, Lies
"We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without Whales. It's too terrible to imagine." - Pierce Brosnan
"Tell me who can catch a Toucan? Lou can. Just how few can ride the Toucan?
Two Can. What kind of goo can stick you to the Toucan?
Glue can. Who can write some more about the Toucan? You Can."
- Shel Silverstein, The Toucan
"Perhaps the greatest gift an animal has to offer is a permanent reminder of who we really are." - Nick Trout, Love is the Best Medicine: What two Dogs Taught One Veterinarian about Hope, Humility and Everyday Miracles.
"Saving one dog will not change the world. but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever." - Karen Davison
"We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to help people understand that the animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves." - Cesar Chavez
"And then there is the Black Cat. Who has not other name than the Black Cat and who turned up almost a month ago. We did not realize he was going to be living here at first: he looked too well fed to be a stray, too old and jaunty to have been abandoned. He looked like a small panther, and he moved like a patch of night...." - Neil Gaiman's M is for Magic
" I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands at all times. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire." - Emeril Lagasse