Henri Frederic Amiel Quotes
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric. Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel. Translated by Mary A. Ward, Macmillan and Co., 1885.
He was talking about teh importance of getting people to learn about and know birds and other wildlife so then they would be enviornmentally conscious by wanting to take care of the wildlife. However, this quotation has much more generality, in that this characeristic of human nature seems to apply to immigrants, people of different religions and even of different polarized political subgroups. Contact with and knowing others tends to induce empathy, care, concern adn love.
Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.