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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…
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Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
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Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of…
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You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…
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Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
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As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…
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Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…
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We have now the remarkable spectacle that just when many scientific men are agreed that there is no part of the Darwinian…
— Unknown Author
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The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.
— William Ralph Inge
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to what they…
— Unknown Author
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Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody…
— Ezra Pound
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
— William Ralph Inge
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In my younger days, when I was painted by the half-educated, loose and inaccurate ways women had, I used to say, "How…
— Maria Mitchell
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He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.
— Gerald Durrell
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