MOTHER NATURE
KERRY'S NOTES: “Might I forget the human race & hate no more.” When all are resting before the waking hour, is this the wish that Mother Earth whispers to all her creatures? How she must pity the elephant for their long & storied memories.
QUOTE: “Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant/ (The only harmless great thing), the giant /Of beasts,...” --- John Donne
QUOTE: “Nature, with equal mind,
Sees all her sons at play;
Sees man control the wind,
The wind sweep man away.” --- Matthew Arnold
QUOTE: “Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.” --- George Perkins Marsh
QUOTE: “The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands” --- Havelock Ellis
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