“We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and for the future generations of humankind that will need to be refreshed, renewed and healed by them.” NeedsNatureAnimalGenerationsBuddhismHarmonySacredPlantSpeciesPreservesHumankindLocationFuture GenerationHealedCoexistPlants And Animals Author:Frederick Lenz
“I have long admired the visceral storytelling and moral complexity of John Vaillant’s brilliant non-fiction about humankind’s tragically ambivalent relationship with the natural world. Now he brings his abundant literary gifts to a debut novel set in a very real borderland in which human beings are themselves treated like animals. The Jaguar’s Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.” WorldShouldHumansChildrenLongRealCultureNaturalHuman BeingsAnimalFictionMoralNovelBraveBrilliantTreatedStorytellingPreservesComplexityHumankindNatural WorldNon FictionLamentVisceralDebutAmbivalentJaguars Author:John Burnham Schwartz
“The most savage and voracious animal never kills to increase his wealth, or open a way to grandeur. It slays to satisfy his hunger, or in a natural defense of his own life, or of those whom he is prompted by instinct to preserve.” WayNaturalWealthAnimalCrimeIncreaseMurderInstinctHungerDefensePreservesSavagesGrandeur Author:Mary Collyer
“It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.” MenHas BeensSelfWholeEyeAnimalRaceAudienceDogPositionGrewConsciousCatIndependenceSlaveryRagePreservesGentlemanConsiderationAffectedAppetiteHuntingLeisurePlatesBetrayedSelf ConsciousRenunciationSatellites Book:Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21 Source: Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21
“People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us.” PeopleWayImportantStatesFilmRealizingNaturalAnimalVideoPreservesPerformingProtectedDocumentariesWildlife Author:Montel Williams
“The impious soul, however, punishes itself by seeking a human body to enter into, for no other body can receive a human soul; it cannot enter the body of an animal devoid of reason. Divine law preserves the human soul from such infamy... The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold. Thou puttest off thy bodies as raiment; and as vesture dost thou fold them up. Thou art from old, O Soul of Man; yea, thou art from everlasting.” MenHumansArtSoulReasonBodyFormLawAnimalDivineHe ManSeekingPreservesEverlastingHuman BodyFoldsHuman SoulPilgrimageMansionsManifoldInfamyDivine Law Author:Georg Hermes
“When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be themselves in. Its come to a point though, clearly, where some species have to be cared for by humans if they are not going to disappear altogether.” IfsHumansAnimalEffortAreasSpeciesDisappearPreservesWilderness Author:Matthew Fox
“Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.” MenWorldMeanAbleHumanityFatherAnimalPrinciplesStruggleAll ThingsPreservesBrutalAnimal World Book:Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943 Source: Hitler's Words: Two Decades of National Socialism, 1923-1943
“Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that idea. Obviously, people can't survive without air and water, and we rely on plants and animals for food, and plants and animals rely on us to preserve their habitats.” PeopleLongHas BeensIdeasUseWaterAnimalAirLong TimeScientistPlantPreservesRelyEcosystemsInterconnectedHabitatPlants And AnimalsAir And Water Author:Naomi Oreskes
“Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.” PeopleRealBigsFightingGoalAnimalPlanetsConcernedSpeciesCriticalRichesCrueltyPreservesShelterUnnecessaryExtinctionInheritanceOur PlanetTrue RichesSpecies Extinction Author:April Gornik