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“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.”

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Author:Chris Noth

“I just think you would never kill and cut up a human to wear so why do it to animals? I just think it's horrible, I would never wear fur, although I guess if it was a really vintage piece you might just get away with it.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Might Animal Pieces Cutting Horrible Get Away Fur Vintage

Author:Kelly Osbourne

“Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them back on the soil, you couldn't feed more than 4 billion people. In addition, if all agriculture were organic, you would have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests.”

People Ifs Humans Use Animal Millions Cutting Materials Waste Areas Increase Plant Billions Forests Soil Agriculture Acres Manure Cutting Down

Author:Norman Borlaug

“Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.”

Source: The Collected Works of Anton Chekhov: Novellas, Short Stories, Plays, Letters & Diary: Three Sisters, Seagull , The Shooting Party, Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard, Chameleon, Tripping Tongue, On The Road, Vanka, Ward No. Six, Swedish Match, Nightmare, Bear, Reluctant Hero, Joy…

“It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass Nature and the nature of man himself and animals, trees, rocks and streams. Every attempt at a formula, a short-cut, a panacea, always ends in negation and destruction.”

Men Ends Earth Animal Cutting Tree Rocks Destruction Environmental Streams Formulas Agriculture Nature Of Man Negation Short Cuts Panacea

Author:Louis Bromfield

“It takes 16 lbs of grain to make 1 lb of beef. It takes 1 lb of grain to make 1 lb of bread. So, how many more plants are you eating if you eat a pound of beef? Secondly, I've harvested cabbages and pulled up carrots out of the ground and I've been in slaughter-houses and seen the animals have their brains bashed out with sledgehammers and their throats cut - the experiences are not comparable.”

Ifs House Animal Brain Cutting Eating Plant Bread Pounds Throat Grain Slaughter Beef Carrots Cabbage

Author:John Robbins

“Don't get a job in an abattoir. Don't be a butcher. The idea that people have to do these jobs for a livelihood is ridiculous. They can get other jobs. Shoplift, man. Better to be a prostitute than cut an animal's head off for a living.”

People Men Ideas Jobs Animal Cutting Ridiculous Livelihood Butchers

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.”

Use Animal Cutting Pride Proud Tools Fingers Ridiculous Priests

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The butcher with his bloody apron incites bloodshed, murder. Why not? From cutting the throat of a young calf to cutting the throats of our brothers and sisters is but a step. While we ourselves are living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal conditions on the earth?”

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Author:Isadora Duncan

“And then you bit onto them, and learned once again that Cut-me-own-Throat Dibbler could find a use for bits of an animal that the animal didn't know it had got. Dibbler had worked out that with enough fried onions and mustard people would eat anything.”

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Author:Terry Pratchett

“A political animal can be defined as a body that will go on circulating a petition even with its heart cut out.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“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

“So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it [footage] out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“Young people understand that you don't have to wear or eat animals. I get that it can be cheaper to use animal products - but using animals really cuts corners.”

People Use Young Animal Cutting Products Corners Cheaper

Author:Pamela Anderson