Turtle Planet. Yun Rou
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Charno, Shing-I Ch’uan Master
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Turtle
Planet
Turtle
Planet
Compassion, Conservation,
and the Fate of the
Natural World
Yun Rou
Coral Gables
Copyright © 2020 Yun Rou
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Turtle Planet: Compassion, Conservation, and the Fate of the Natural World
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ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-271-8, (ebook) 978-1-64250-272-5
BISAC category code FIC025000FICTION / Psychological
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For Professor Richard Malenky—researcher, environmentalist, and, perhaps most importantly, teacher extraordinaire. Thank you, old friend, for pointing me straight at what matters, all those many years ago.
And for Janelle, queen of all spirit realms, especially my own.
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged
by the way its animals are treated. I hold that the more helpless
a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man
from the cruelty of humankind.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“Great Dao inhales and exhales. Monitor and guard sexual essence, breath, physical energy, emotion, money, and spiritual capital.
Be sure there is more inhaling than exhaling, lest you flag, tire, sadden, go broke, forget who you are, and die.”
—Immortal YIN, chelonian consort to the Great Sage, Laozi
“Behold the turtle, who makes progress only
when he sticks his neck out.”
—Bryant Conant