Quotations for reflections

Quotations

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- About self-serving knowledge
- About forests and their fauna
- About peace

About self-serving knowledge

The functioning of the current educational system is based on certain subjects that are at the service of what is immediately profitable. Parents and teachers conceive this “knowledge” as a useful investment relative to the professional future of the student and discard as useless whatever does not contribute to that end.

  Juan Goytisolo

 

About forests and their fauna

Forests are necessary for various reasons. One of them is that they capture large amounts of carbon dioxide, which otherwise would be released into the environment. But if we do not preserve animals as much as we do trees, very frequently the forests will be destroyed, because many of them depend on animals to scatter their seeds. There are many seeds that cannot germinate if they do not pass through the digestive tract of certain animals… Therefore, a forest just with trees is a forest that will die.

  Jane Goodall

 

About peace

There are no paths to peace; peace is the path.

Mahatma Gandhi