Earth Day is the first holy day…and is devoted to the harmony of nature… The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
MARGARET MEADIf man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
More Margaret Mead Quotes
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A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
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You know you love someone when you cannot put into words how they make you feel.
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It used to be when we said, ”til death do us part,’ death parted us pretty soon. That’s why marriages used to last forever. Everybody was dead.
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Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.
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It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
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Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.
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If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.
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What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
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Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.
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Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.
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One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and get away with it.
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The people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others’ children.
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Human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.
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To demand that another love what one loves is tyranny enough, but to demand that another hate what one hates, is even worse.
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Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.
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