"We
consider species to be like a brick in the foundation
of a building. You can probably lose one or two or a
dozen bricks and still have a standing house. But by
the time you've lost 20 per cent of species, you're
going to destabilize the entire structure. That's the
way ecosystems work."
- Donald Falk
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"When
we protect the places where the processes of life
can flourish, we strengthen not only the future
of medicine, agriculture and industry, but also
the essential conditions for peace and prosperity."
~ Harrison Ford
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"Our
health relies entirely on the vitality of our
fellow species on Earth."
~ Harrison Ford
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As
custodians of the planet it is our responsibility
to deal with all species with kindness, love and
compassion. That these animals suffer through human
cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to
stop this madness.
-- Richard Gere |
"We
cannot win this battle to save species and environments
without forging an emotional bond between ourselves
and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what
we do not love."
~ Stephen Jay Gould
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"For if one link in nature's chain might be lost,
another might be lost, until the whole of things
will vanish by piecemeal."
~ Thomas Jefferson
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"What
an extraordinary time to be alive. We’re the first
people on our planet to have real choice: we can
continue killing each other, wiping out other species,
spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution
in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting
community and our ties to the earth. So we do have
a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose
life."
-- Frances Moore Lappé |
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"In the area of species protection, we should
concern ourselves with what is right as opposed
to what might be easier, or popular in the short
term."
~ Richard Leakey
"It's
the next annihilation of vast numbers of species.
It is happening now, and we, the human race, are
its cause"
~ Richard Leakey
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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 wild species ... Mankind has
opted for monoculture; it is in the process of creating
a mass civilization, as beetroot is grown in the mass.
Henceforth, man's daily bill of fare will consist only
of this one item.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss
Yet,
despite our many advances, our environment is still
threatened by a range of problems, including global
climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil
fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
-- Dan Lipinski
"Natural
species are the library from which genetic engineers
can work."
- Thomas E. Lovejoy
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