“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
Epitaph, as quoted in Margaret Mead : A Voice for the Century (1982) by Robert Cassidy, p. 152
1980s
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force.”
Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer
“The solution to all the problems of daily life is to cherish others.”
Kelsang Gyatso (1931) Tibetan writer and lama
Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey (2001)
“The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom.”
Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Speech at a Rally in Cuba (1991)
Context: We also honour the great Che Guevara, whose revolutionary exploits, including on our own continent, were too powerful for any prison censors to hide from us. The life of Che is an inspiration to all human beings who cherish freedom. We will always honour his memory.
“What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!”
William Ellery Channing (1780–1842) United States Unitarian clergyman
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 210
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
58 min 56 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), Traveller's Tales [Episode 6]
Wendell Berry (1934) author
Context: I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until "retirement," but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of their place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains them, and which they know they can never compass with their understanding or desire.
The Unforeseen Wilderness : An Essay on Kentucky's Red River Gorge (1971), p. 33; what is likely a paraphrase of a portion of this has existed since at least 1997, and has sometimes become misattributed to John James Audubon: A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, South Korea's Collective Shrug (May 2010)