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“People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.”

“When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.”

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Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a sick landscape. We tilt windmills in behalf of conservation in convention halls and editorial offices, but on the back forty we disclaim even owning a lance.”

Animal Land Pride Office Sick Shame Plant Landscape Forty Halls Conventions Conservation Behalf Editorials Plants And Animals Tilt Windmills

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.”

People Thinking Care Animal Worthwhile Conservation Animal Conservation

Author:David Attenborough

“The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.”

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Author:David Attenborough

“Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.”

Ifs Animal Wonderful Uncomfortable Conservation Viewers

Author:David Attenborough

“Unfortunately, there's a big, bad new bully threatening ocean animals, climate change. We might save fish only to have them starve because of climate change. It seems like the problems just won't stop. That's what got me to quit my cushy University job and take a big pay cut to work on conservation.”

Problem Bigs Seems Might Jobs Animal Pay Cutting Ocean Climate Climate Change University Fishes Quitting Conservation Threatening Bully

Author:Mark Powell