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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…
• Until we consider animal life to be worthy of the consideration and reverence we bestow upon old books and pictures and historic…
• 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…
• You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that…
• The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with…
• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
• As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices,…
• Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces…
• Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
• Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.
• All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call…
• 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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