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The death of the forest is the end of our life. — Dorothy Stang

Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more. — Edwin Way Teale

Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks - the hammerhead, the bonnethead {also known as the shovelhead}, and the blacktip. — Karen Shanor Bats Sing, Mice...

Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. — Carl Sagan Billions &...

The thing I found offensive, the thing I hated about Mohican - mountain - makers, gill - netters, poachers, whalehunters, strip - miners, herbicide - spewers, dam - erectors, nuclear - reactor - builders or anyone who lusted after flesh, meat, mineral, tree, pelt and dollar - including, first and foremost, myself - was the smug ingratitude, the attitude that assumed the world and its creatures owed us everything we could catch, shoot, tear out, alter, plunder, devour... and we owed the world nothing in return. — David James Duncan The River Why

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that cooperation, not rugged individualism, is the quality that most characterizes and preserves it,...

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