Conservation - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

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,...

Today Birthdays

1916 - Jack Vance 1974 - Jen Kirkman 1951 - Barbara Hambly 1969 - Sheryl Sandberg 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1906 - John Betjeman 1952 - Rita Dove 1924 - Janet Frame 1917 - Jack Kirby 1903 - Bruno Bettelheim 1986 - Florence Welch 1916 - C. Wright Mills 1958 - Scott Hamilton 1957 - Daniel Stern 1928 - Eugene Kennedy 1969 - Jack Black 1962 - David Fincher 1972 - Robert Battle 1954 - George M. Church 1948 - Carol Bartz 1982 - LeAnn Rimes 1961 - Jennifer Coolidge 1960 - Leroy Chiao 1973 - J. August Richards 1908 - Roger Tory Peterson 1938 - Paul Martin 1958 - Erwin McManus 1981 - Jake Owen 1986 - Armie Hammer 1989 - Cassadee Pope

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Categories »

Today Birthdays

Popular quotes

Categories