#ak

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

I want to burn the world because Alan is gone," he said. "I want to destroy everything I see. But you mean something to me. I will not destroy the world, because it has you in it. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#awww-i-love-this-one #beautiful #heartbreaking #beauty

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give. ↗

— Diogenes

#cannot #give #i #intercepting #may

Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#geographical #intensified #jobs #marriage #mobility

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#break #chain #i #might #negative

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. ↗

— Walt Disney

#else #less #like #makes #more

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality. ↗

— Walt Disney

#build #create #dream #make #most

Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation. ↗

— Walt Disney

#appreciation #communication #conceive #devised #explain

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ↗

— Walt Disney

#inventions #language #mass #most #our