Wild Species Quotes
- We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
- Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
- Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately tied… — Norman Myers
- Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to… — Jared Diamond
- Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having… — John Dingell
- We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive. — Norm Dicks
- Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin… — Wallace Stegner