In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
Jane GoodallTags: science kindness nature understanding treat human-rights conservation help caring chimpanzees chimps consideration great-apes saved
Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David ThoreauTags: nature conservation wilderness
...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance.
Lawrence MillmanTags: nature conservation page-191 polar-bears
The Holy Land is everywhere
Black ElkTags: religion environmentalism spirituality ecology conservation native-american
...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...
Nicole KraussTags: conservation
This book was written using 100% recycled words.
Terry PratchettTags: humor environmentalism conservation
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
Gary SnyderTags: nature home conservation
When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth.
Henry David ThoreauTags: animals nature earth conservation woods
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.
Rachel CarsonTags: science war conservation
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
Wendell BerryTags: conservation preservation
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