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“We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.”

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Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“"But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."”

Source: The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House

“Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”

“It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful; from the point of view of the infinite ignorance that surrounds us, the difference is not impressive. Indeed, from that point of view, the goat may have the better mind, for he is more congenially adapted to his place, and he would not endanger his species or his planet for the sake of an idea.”

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Author:Wendell Berry

“It should not be believed that all beings exist for the sake of the existence of man. On the contrary, all the other beings too have been intended for their own sakes and not for the sake of anything else.”

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Book:The Guide of the Perplexed

Source: The Guide of the Perplexed

“It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of science to the useful arts requires other abilities, other qualities, other tools than his; and therefore I say that the man of science who follows his studies into their practical application is false to his calling. The practical man stands ever ready to take up the work where the scientific man leaves it, and adapt it to the material wants and uses of daily life.”

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Author:Louis Agassiz