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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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Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
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Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
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All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call…
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There is no first world and third world. There is only one world, for all of us to live and delight in.
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If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.
— Madeleine Albright
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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…
— Gerald Durrell
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The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
— Oscar Wilde
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I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is…
— Tom Noonan
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What keeps me awake at the wheel is the thrill of trying something completely new with each book. I’m not a risk-taker…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats…
— Tony La Russa
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of…
— Jimmy Cliff
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers…
— Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
— George Eliot
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to…
— Wallace Shawn
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[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how…
— Bart D. Ehrman
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I tend to mean what I say: in life, generally; in recipes, certainly.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
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