H. Jackson Brown Jr. Quotes
Put a love note in his shaving kit before he leaves on a business trip.
Brown, H. Jackson, Jr. Life's Little Instruction Book. Rutledge Hill Press, 1991.
He was defying the Italian Federal Laws and the position of the Vatican with respect to gay marriage. The 16 couples were wed abroad as gay marriage was then illegal in Italy. However, he officially recognized the marriages, something which the conservatives in the Federal government had been able to avoid then. The photo is the mayor congratulating one of the couples he registered.
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.
Harriett Jackson Brown Jr. is an American author best known for his inspirational book, Life's Little Instruction Book, which was a New York Times bestseller (1991–1994). Its sequel Life's Little Instruction Book: Volume 2 also made it to the same best seller list in 1993.