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“The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby gorilla at the zoo, or by threats to endangered species; but developments in farming techniques that deprive millions of animals of freedom of movement go unreported.”

Source: Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals

“Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.”

“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!”

People Generations Married Species Marijuana My Generation Anniversary Endangered Species

Author:Patrice Leconte

“It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.”

Class Middle Species Middle Class Exaggeration Endangered Species Exaggeration Is

Book:Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

Source: Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

“Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.”

Animal Hell Planets Species Innocent Sufferers Endangered Species

Book:When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

Source: When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

“The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.”

Tools Species Environmental Harm Strongest Decline Endangered Species Endangered Species Act

Author:Norm Dicks

“If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.”

“What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.”

Tree Bird Rivers Species Fishes Mechanism Protected Conservation Enforcement Nests Habitat Endangered Species Endangered Species Act

Author:Jay Inslee

“The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.”

Species Snow Magnificent Leopards Endangered Species Leopard Print Snow Leopards

Author:Jack Hanna

“The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.”

Children Ideas Earth Movement Fundamentals Species Inseparable Eco Endangered Species Children And Nature

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“Government barriers on Business For example, the Endangered Species Act prevents 'disturbing the habitat' of the spotted owl. That has restricted 4.2 million acres of forest from development, leading to the loss of 30,000 lumber-related jobs and the annual loss of 1.1 billion board feet of lumber. This has driven up the cost of houses by at least $4,000 each. In addition, regulators ordered a Kansas City bank to install a Braille keypad on its drive-through automatic teller machine, presumably to aid any blind drivers. The list goes on and on.”

“It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.”

Nations United Impact Species Killing Enormous Passing Passings Resolution Hunting Documentaries United Nations Whales Plight Endangered Species

Author:Wavy Gravy

“Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.”

Country Species Classic Centre Trading Notorious Endangered Species

Author:Prince Philip

“We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.”

Responsibility Generations Protect Species Sake Future Generation Endangered Species Responsibility To Protect Endangered Species Act

Author:Loretta Lynch

“My good mood felt like an endangered species.”

Felt Species Mood Good Mood Endangered Species Cole St Clair

Book:Sinner

Source: Sinner

“I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.”

Thinking Kind Film Changed Species Range Dramatic Endangered Species Endangered Species Act

Author:Christopher Hampton

“I might be an endangered species.”

Might Peace Interest Special Species Activism Special Interests Endangered Species

Author:Waylon Jennings

“It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.”

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