#aria

Being vegetarian here also means that we do not consume dairy and egg products, because they are products of the meat industry. If we stop consuming, they will stop producing. Only collective awakening can create enough determination for action. ↗

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

#veganism #vegetarianism #buddhism

I don't believe vegans (or vegetarians) who still get their (packaged, preservative/chemical-ridden) food from industrial food system have any righteous ground to stand on, nor do I think a deep look at the sentient life of plants or the true environmental impact of agriculture permits them any comfortable distance from cruelty. Everything in this world eats something else to survive, and that something else, whether running on blood or chlorophyll, would always rather continue to live rather than become sustenance for another. No animal wants to be penned up and milked, or caged and harvested, and you've never seen plants growing in regimented lines of their own accord. ↗

— Brian Awehali

#cruelty #ethics #food #plant-intelligence #veganism

He checked out his surrounding. More books. A drinking fountain. A poster showing a guy slam-dunking a basketball with one hand and holding a book in the other, urging kids to READ! Weird, thought Steve. How can he even see the hoop? ... You see, Steven, Librarians are the most elite, best trained secret force in the United States of America. Probably in the world." "No way." "Yes way." "What about the FBI?" "Featherweights." "The CIA?" Mackintosh snorted. "Don't make me laugh. Those guys can't even dunk a basketball andd read a book at the same time. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#fbi #funny #librarians #funny

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#libraries #seniors #librarians

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians. ↗

— Pseudonymous Bosch

#librarian #pirate #secret #treasure #librarians

I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that! ↗

— Peter Cameron

#librarians

Do I have to talk to insane people?" "You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#librarians #librarians

(Xander) He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#knowlege #librarians

I am not the kind of girl who trusts a man to tell her everything she needs to know in his own due time, so I did some research on my sire. You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. ↗

— Molly Harper

#librarian #vampire #vampire-romance #librarians

The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#librarians