Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater. — Sylvia Earle
Diversity is the magic. It is the first manifestation, the first beginning of the differentiation of a thing and of simple identity. The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. — Thomas Berry
Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival. — Rene Dubos
Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way. — Vandana Shiva
The greater the diversity, the greater the perfection. — Thomas Berry
We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature. — Mary Parker Follett
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? — E. O. Wilson
Other intelligent life-forms will differ greatly in appearance - they may resemble the creature in E.T. or startle us with their beauty - but life itself is common, I'm certain. — Frank Drake
In diversity there is beauty and there is strength. — Maya Angelou
Splitting and gradual divergence of genera is exemplified very well and in a large variety of organisms. — George Gaylord Simpson
The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. — Johannes Kepler
Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal
There are no hierarchies in nature other than those imposed by hierarchical modes of human thought, but rather differences merely in function between and within living things. — Murray Bookchin
They know how to communicate, adapt, fight… they’re extremely versatile. And we’re talking about a huge community, with millions of different species and an exciting social life. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
Short Diversity Of Life Quotes
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner
Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative. — Vandana Shiva
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. — W. Somerset Maugham
The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety. — Felix Mendelssohn
Bacterial diversity is a marker of gut health. Herbivores have more of it than carnivores. — Will Bulsiewicz
He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings. — Buddha
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Diversity Day Quotes
I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions. — Susanna Wesley
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. — Gene Roddenberry
The age of isolation is gone. And gone are the days in which barbed wire served as demarcation lines, separating and isolating countries from one another. No country can escape looking beyond its boundaries to find the source of the currents which influence how it can live with others. — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neither was there any heresy, or diversity of opinion, or disputing about the matter, till the pope had gathered a council to confirm this transubstantiation: wherefore it is most likely that this opinion came up by them of latter days. — William Tyndale
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought. — Daniel Boone
Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day. — Winston Churchill
Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness. — Natalia Ginzburg
A leader these days needs to be a host - one who convenes diversity; who convenes all viewpoints in creative processes where our mutual intelligence can come forth. — Margaret J. Wheatley
What Is Diversity Quotes
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. — Margaret Mead
We must learn to endure what we cannot avoid. Our life is composed, like the harmony of the world, of contrary things, also of different tones, sweet and harsh, sharp and flat, soft and loud. If a musician liked only one kind, what would he have to say? — Michel de Montaigne
One of my big philosophies is that fighting is the sport that crosses all borders. I don't care what color you are, what country you come from or what language you speak, fighting is in our DNA. We get it and we like it. — Dana White
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Diversity, or the state of being different, isn't the same as inclusion. One is a description of what is, while the other describes a style of interaction essential to effective teams and organizations. — Bill Crawford
What we need to do is learn to respect and embrace our differences until our differences don't make a difference in how we are treated. — Yolanda King
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do. — John Stuart Mill
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
What is crucial is the provision of opportunities for telling all the diverse stories, for interpreting membership as well as ethnicity, for making inescapable the braids of experience woven into the fabric of America's plurality. — Maxine Greene
I would like to believe that the discovery of even a single fossil bacteria on Mars would teach us what we ought to know all along, and that is what binds us here on earth - all the diverse peoples here - is really much more profound than what seems to separate us. — Richard E. Berendzen
Hip-hop is very diverse, but if you only focus on one aspect of it, then what you get is this image of Black America that is completely contrary to what actually goes on. — Prince
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race. — Kofi Annan
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms. — Antonio Gramsci
We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that. — Chief Joseph
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world. — Democritus
There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet. — William Halsey
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. — Maya Angelou
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay. — E. O. Wilson
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. — Muhammad Ali
We can never work alone to bring great multiplication. It has to happen through unity & diversity. — Loren Cunningham
After 'Prom Night' I did two movies where I was playing a prostitute. I gravitate towards characters that have some sort of inner turmoil or some sort of character arc. That's the great thing about acting, so many different things and being really diverse in your choices. — Brittany Snow
Human Diversity Quotes
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half. — Emmeline Pankhurst
True community is based on upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together. — Pauli Murray
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men. — Simone de Beauvoir
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity. — Isaac Asimov
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. — Margaret Mead
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord. — Abdu'l-Bahá
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few. — Carlos P. Romulo
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. — John Amos Comenius
Difference is of the essence of humanity. Difference is an accident of birth and it should therefore never be the source of hatred or conflict. The answer to difference is to respect it. Therein lies a most fundamental principle of peace: respect for diversity. — John Hume
Cultural Diversity Quotes
Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge. — Dick Gregory
We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully. — Haile Selassie
Unity, not uniformity, must be our aim. We attain unity only through variety. Differences must be integrated, not annihilated, not absorbed. — Mary Parker Follett
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education. — Julian Bond
Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences. — Mikhail Gorbachev
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us. — Chinua Achebe
Failure are part of life. If you don't fail, you don't learn. If you don't learn you'll never change.
The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must depend on it. — Jimmy Carter
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport
In business you need two Jews for one Greek, two Greeks for one Syrian and two Syrians for one Armenian — Greek Proverbs
Diversity Quotes
A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
I have a hard time accepting diversity as a synonym for justice. Diversity is a corporate strategy. — Angela Davis
True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country. — Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
A whale is as unique as a cactus. But don't ask a whale to survive Death Valley. We all have special gifts. Where we use them and how determines whether we actually complete something. — Max De Pree
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization. — Mahatma Gandhi
Bringing nature into the classroom can kindle a fascination and passion for the diversity of life on earth and can motivate a sense of responsibility to safeguard it. — David Attenborough
Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe. — Langston Hughes
Each finite creature can reflect only a fraction of the divine nature; thus, in the diversity of His creatures, God's infinity, unity and oneness appear to be broken into an effulfgence of manifold rays. — Edith Stein
Biodiversity Quotes
It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else. — Maimonides
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson
The more complex the network is, the more complex its pattern of interconnections, the more resilient it will be. — Fritjof Capra
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love. — Stephen Jay Gould
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century. — Philip Shabecoff
If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that allows natural systems to function, no amount of money will save us. — David Suzuki
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. — William H. Schlesinger
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements. — Vandana Shiva
Oman overall has great animal and plant biodiversity because it has mountains, desert, coastal areas and rich coral reefs. — Saadi Shirazi
Celebrating Diversity Quotes
Of all forms of diversity that should be celebrated on university campuses, none is more important than supporting, nurturing, and promoting intellectual diversity. — Gad Saad
Good schools, like good societies and good families, celebrate and cherish diversity. — Deborah Meier
Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world's peoples. — Aga Khan IV
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity. — Julie Bishop
We are way more powerful when we turn to each other and not on each other, when we celebrate our diversity, focus on our commonality, and together tear down the mighty walls of injustice. — Cynthia McKinney
I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity as long as you don't point out that people are different. — Colin Quinn
Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality. — Barack Obama
Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death. — Steven Erikson
President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress. — Valerie Jarrett
We are a diverse country, but we are one country. And we are at our best when we come together as Americans, not despite our differences, but in celebration of them. — Jared Polis
Religious Diversity Quotes
Identity is a concept of our age that should be used very carefully. All types of identities, ethnic, national, religious, sexual or whatever else, can become your prison after a while. The identity that you stand up for can enslave you and close you to the rest of the world. — Murathan Mungan
What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice. — Carter G. Woodson
Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land. — Tariq Ramadan
For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests. — Alexander Hamilton
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired. — Robert Kennedy
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph Washington Sockman
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony
The culturally, linguistically and religiously diverse population of Indian and Pakistani-administered Jammu and Kashmir has been unable to reach a consensus on the future of the land and the heterogeneous peoples of the state. — Nyla Ali Khan
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity. — Walter F. Mondale
Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth. — Theodore Roosevelt
Ethnic Diversity Quotes
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Ethnic minorities are not one homogeneous political group. — Rishi Sunak
We need to help students and parents cherish and preserve the ethnic and cultural diversity that nourishes and strengthens this community - and this nation. — Cesar Chavez
People are born without choosing their father and that’s why we have so many different ethnicities in the world! — Romanian Proverbs
We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives. — Mahnaz Afkhami
In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people. — Forest Whitaker
Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. — Bashar al-Assad
I think we should appreciate ethnicity and diversity, and appreciate the uniqueness of all people, but I don't think we should be ethnocentric. These things are not ultimate. — LeCrae
Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles. — Derwin L. Gray
It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not. — Nelson Mandela
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. — Anais Nin
'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities. — Anthony Giddens
Variety is the spice of life. — American Proverbs
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens. — Cameron Sinclair
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life. — Lucretia Mott
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us. — E. O. Wilson
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named. — E. O. Wilson
Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nature has provided two great gifts: life and then the diversity of living things, jellyfish and humans, worms and crocodiles. I don't undervalue the investigation of commonalities but can't avoid the conclusion that diversity has been relatively neglected, especially as concerns the brain. — Theodore Holmes Bullock
The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole. — Corinne McLaughlin
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life. — Oren Lyons
We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own - indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all its diversity, beauty and wonder. This will happen if we see the need to revive our sense of belonging to a larger family of life, with which we have shared our evolutionary process. — Wangari Maathai
The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed. — J. K. Rowling
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts. — Leo Tolstoy
Difference of opinion is helpful in religion. — Thomas Jefferson
I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable…has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. — T. H. White
Live with the objective of being happy. — Anne Frank
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. — Arthur Miller
The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy. — Rob Bell
My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else. — Oliver Sacks
Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality. — Heather King
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth. — Gary Larson
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. — Jimmy Carter
The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration. — Carol P. Christ
People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture. — Felix Adler
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. — Buddha
Fear of difference is fear of life itself. — Mary Parker Follett
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. — Hu Shih
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships. — Frank Herbert
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any — Mahatma Gandhi
My whole worldview has changed because of the work that I do. Specifically, the way in which I appropriate my own faith as a Christian, and the way in which I think about the faith and life of others who are very different than myself. That mutuality of regard is how we deal with difference and diversity in the world. — Diana L. Eck
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