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Quotes About Endangered

Extinction) Twelve million or more species, less than a tenth of them counted. And half of them will snuff out in her lifetime.
~ Richard Powers
This body feels chambered by all that has escaped a constellation of intent, only, perhaps, the brightest intent of a star, a piping fish, endangered by troubled air. From breath to breath, the world is disfigured, reconstructed, let go.
~ Jay Wright
When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant
~ Elie Wiesel
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant
~ Elie Wiesel
Traffic with the world is laid upon us for chastening, and for the testing of our vocation. The grace of God is not endangered by the follies or the wickedness of men.
~ Ellis Peters
I'd rather write about polar bears than people.
~ Mary Oliver
My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
~ Quvenzhane Wallis
Search for the Elusive And The best at dialogue refuse Fool's Choices by setting up new choices. They present themselves with tougher questions—questions that turn the either/or choice into a search for the all-important and ever-elusive and. (It is an endangered species, you know.) Here's how this works.
~ Kerry Patterson
Hey, you've still got your endangered hymen. Which means you'll make it to closing credits - I'm s.o.l.
~ Kresley Cole
They're a band of miners who aided and abetted an endangered royal named Snow White. They're basically revolutionaries." Hey
~ Kresley Cole
Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.
~ Mathew Staver
Life depends on the water cycle, so what's endangered here is life itself. And we're not talking about something that can't be avoided because no unavoidable pollution exists. It's all caused by man. Pollution can be prevented. It only takes the will and the means to fight it.
~ Jeffrey Robinson
Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.
~ Lydia Millet
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
~ Samuel Beckett
I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
~ Adam Ant
A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered.
~ Benjamin Cohen
Josh Greene and Jonathan Cohen of Princeton wrote an extremely clearheaded piece on this, "For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything." Where neuroscience and the rest of biology change nothing is in the continued need to protect the endangered from the dangerous.30
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
Susan is happy off on another project to save yet another endangered creature. But I miss Irving, and though Susan would laugh at me probably, I like to think that Irving is somewhere chasing angelic speedboats, or maybe he's got his own wings. Surely, even God needs a laugh now and then, and Irving is a funny guy, for a monster.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You
~ Lawrence Block
A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.
~ W. A. H. Rushton
We endanger species.
~ Alan Dean Foster
freedom is not less endangered if attacked in the name of anti-Fascism than in that of outright Fascism.
~ Erich Fromm
People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.
~ Gary Larson
The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
~ Bill Vaughan