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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There…
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Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations…
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Butterflies may be better indicators of the health of our environment than birds.
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Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take…
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Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.
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Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into…
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Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
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The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,…
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The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us…
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I consider myself to have been the bridge between the shotgun and the binoculars in bird watching. Before I came along, the…
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I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though
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Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
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Penguins are an indicator of the health of our watery planet, and if they are unable to survive, we had better take…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we…
— Cary Fowler
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Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a…
— John Templeton
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Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.
— Dalai Lama
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If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?
— Carl Sagan
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The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay…
— Norbert Wiener
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The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there…
— Janet Frame
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What hope is there?” I asked. “If even angels fall, what hope is there for the rest of us?” “There isn’t,” he…
— Richelle Mead
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