“Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.” ChildrenBookUsedLostParentInterestAnimalClassGenerationsMiddleLateAvailableVideoMiddle ClassFavouriteEightyAdorableFavourite Book Author:Peter York
“Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.” KnowsMayEarthNatureAnimalResponsibilityKnownGenerationsLatePlantToo LateCapabilityOrganismsInsectsFuture GenerationHabitat Book:Worlds in Harmony Source: Worlds in Harmony
“It was Sunday morning (one a.m.), a not unusual time for some farmers, after a late Saturday night, to have a look round their stock and decide to send for the vet.” LooksNightAnimalMorningLateRoundsPetSundayFarmersUnusualSaturdaySaturday NightVetsSunday Morning Book:Vet in Harness Source: Vet in Harness
“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.” EndsEyeFormAnimalExampleParticularBalanceEssentialsLateExpectationsBuiltBlindStructureSpeciesEnvironmentalLocalsUpsetSoilFuelToo LateRoutineVegetablesImmenseFossilsExtinctionStewardshipSuppliesFossil FuelEcosystemsBlind EyesImportation Book:Faith in the Public Square Source: Faith in the Public Square
“Sometimes I watch myself fly. For in the history of human flight it is not yet so very late; and a man may still wonder once in a while and ask: how is it that I, poor earth-habitituated animal, can fly?” MenHumansMayStillsSometimesEarthAsksAnimalPoorWonderWatchesLateFlightAviationGreat Aviation Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche