Betty White Quotes

The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world.

The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another.

Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?

Savage bears agree with one another.

More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most.

Bears need people. People need bears.

Nature promotes mutualism. The flower nourishes the bee. The river waters quench the thirst of all living beings. And trees provide a welcoming home to so many birds and animals. There is a rhythm to this togetherness.

We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

We do not need heaven-born saints but just earth-born seekers who believe in peace and want to live in peace.

I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully.

I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

The concept of peaceful coexistence has been criticized by many who do not see the need to make the world safe for diversity. I wonder if they have ever paused to ask themselves the question: What is the alternative to coexistence?

In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

No two leaves were alike, and yet there is no antagonism between them or between the branches on which they grow.