Animals Quote by Aldo Leopold

“It is a maxim among carnivore biologists that the main reason big predators now die is because people kill them. People run them over…

— William Stolzenburg

“Wildlife, we are constantly told, would run loose across our towns and cities were it not for the sport hunters to control their population,…

— Matthew Scully

“the most ethical option is not to stop hunting animals, but to re-enter the food chain and replace the predators that we displaced. To…

— John Durant

“understand that the greatest danger to wildlife was not poaching but habitat destruction—the same thing that ultimately threatened humans.”

— Judith D. Schwartz

Some philosophers have begun writing sympathetically about predator elimination as a way of reducing animal suffering. From an environmental perspective this is somewhere between…

— Dale Jamieson

Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to…

— Susan Estrich

The way to reason with a predator is to make it aware that it can live in a cage, or it can die, but…

— Massad Ayoob

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

— Charles Manson

“No decent person deliberately chooses to be violent or cruel. We must remove our blinkers and learn that in order to live according to…

— Mango Wodzak

“Predation is so fundamental to nature that it seems absurd to demonize it for any animal, including humans.”

— Jackson Landers

“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB”

— Peter Watts

“We are endowed with a moral capacity that animals, plants, rocks-and many fervent ecologists-lack. We should not be dirty, wasteful or cruel. To do…

— P.J. O'Rourke