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 Unlike human creations that can become outdated or lose their charm over time, the essence of nature holds an eternal quality that remains relevant and invigorating.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.
The garden is a living, pulsing, singing, scratching, warring, erotic, and generally rowdy thing. I may find peace in its midst, but I regard it as a whole with many parts, a plural organism.
Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
I want to get out in the water. I want to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.
ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim.
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