When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
Isaac Bashevis SingerRead
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Interpretation
Nature's offerings are always fresh and timeless, reflecting its eternal quality.
In this quote, Isaac Bashevis Singer emphasizes the idea that nature presents us with gifts that are always vibrant and full of life. Unlike human creations that can become outdated or lose their charm over time, the essence of nature holds an eternal quality that remains relevant and invigorating.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of environmental conservation.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.
Man must be able to escape civilization if he is to survive. Some of his greatest needs are for refuges and retreats where he can recapture for a day or a week the primitive conditions of life.
Flowers are the earth laughing.
I wonder about the trees._x000D_ _x000D_ Why do we wish to bear_x000D_ _x000D_ Forever the noise of these_x000D_ _x000D_ More than another noise_x000D_ _x000D_ So close to our dwelling place?
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.
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