We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOERI hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.
More Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes
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The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.
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We could imagine all sorts of universes unlike this one, but this is the one that happened.
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Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.
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I can only hold on to the things I want to lose.
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Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction.
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In my family, Father is the world champion at ending conversations.
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Whether we change our lives or do nothing, we have responded. To do nothing is to do something.
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I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.
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He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good holding, that you could talk about without ever having read, that you could recommend.
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I felt shame for living in a nation of unprecedented prosperity-a nation that spends a smaller percentage of income on food than any other civilization has in human history-but in the name of affordability treats the animals it eats with cruelty so extreme it would be illegal if inflicted on a dog.
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Ninety-nine percent of all land animals eaten or used to produce milk and eggs in the United States are factory farmed. So although there are important exceptions, to speak about eating animals today is to speak about factory farming.
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It’s so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won’t be awake for another five hours, but I can’t help feeling that we’re sharing this clear and beautiful morning.
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Worthy would-be worlds of words, whorls of working wonder.
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Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].
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My point is that there are a lot of forces, like the media and the general political rhetoric tells us we should have more. That we should do better than our parents and have a bigger house or a better car.
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