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“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.”

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

“The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.”

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

“The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.”

“If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.”

“Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?”

“Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.”