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QUOTATIONS ARCHIVE
This Quotations Archive contains words from famous and some not so famous people who have expressed a sense of love, compassion, and respect for all of God's creation: for people, for animals, and for the environment. They speak of our teaching methods and philosophy. They speak of a lifestyle of non-violence. They seek to eliminate cruelty and suffering. They seek to wake us up. They seek to give us hope.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
(25 May 1803 – 27 Apri1 1882)
"You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity."
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.”
“Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.”
“Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
“A friend is one before whom I may think aloud.”
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”
“A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.”
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Watercolor painting "Wetland Weeds" by Mary T. Hoffman
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