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“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source: Silent Spring

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

“Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.”

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

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Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.”

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Book:Silent Spring

Source: Silent Spring

“Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.”

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Book:A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

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Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.”

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

“It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.”

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Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.”

“We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.”

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Author:Wallace Stegner

“I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.”

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Author:Dennis Cardoza

“...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.”

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Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

“Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.”

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Author:Steve Irwin

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.”

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There