Linda McCartney Quotes

Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings

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• We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Animal
  • Rain

• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • You
  • Wish
  • Animals

• Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Earth
  • Eggs
  • Egg

• People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Time
  • Political

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Ancient

• Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.

  

  J. Carter Brown
  • God
  • Why
  • Want

• I have always loved animals since I was very young.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Always
  • Loved
  • Animals

• In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Past
  • Earth
  • Resources

• The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Space
  • Always

• When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Important
  • May
  • Earth

• It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Earth
  • Wisdom
  • Used

• Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Up
  • Men
  • Earth

• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

  

  Ferdinand Foch
  • Soul
  • Earth
  • Powerful

• To see you naked is to recall the Earth.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Earth
  • See
  • Naked

• God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Earth
  • Suffering

• I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Earth

• When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Power
  • Society

• An artist must pass judgment only on what he understands; his range is limited as that of any other specialist—that's what I keep repeating and insisting upon. Anyone who says that the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imagery. An artist observes, selects, guesses and synthesizes.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Writing
  • Done

• Reason, it is true, is DICTATOR in the Society of Mankind; from her there ought to lie no Appeal; But here we want a Pope in our Philosophy, to be the infallible Judge of what is or is not Reason.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • True
  • Society
  • Judge

• If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • People
  • Pride

• God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you -- yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • She
  • Wife

• Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.

  

  Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Earth
  • Animals
  • Cares