Quotes About Endangered

Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

There is nothing boring about the prospect of extinction.

when we consider the question carefully, we find that creation and sanc tification do not add to the perfection of God, but merely to that of the creature. It is not the divine operation as such that undergoes an intrinsic change, but solely the product of this operation. Hence God's free operation ad extra furnishes no objective reason why His operation and nature should be split up and His simplicity endangered. 39

A confused society, a deeply endangered society, is a group of people all lost in nightmarish commute. The systems, institutions, and culture of such a society discourage people from feeling the trust and belonging that come with being at home in your world. A

Size isn't everything. The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

Beyond are villages still sleeping in the forests, on the great reservations — villages peopled with human beings only vaguely aware that the even course of their racial life may somehow be endangered by the persistent and irresistible pressure of the White man.

June 23 is World Giraffe Day

nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature—tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.

Marriage, as an institution, is as dead as the dodo bird.

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

This might not matter to much of anyone but a confirmed Slow Foodie, eager to save and sample endangered food traditions, except for one notable fact: Medical researchers are coming around to the startling conclusion that, in order to be healthy, people need more exposure to microbes, not less; and that one of the problems with the so-called Western diet—besides all the refined carbohydrates and fats and novel chemicals in it—is the absence from it of live-culture foods.

Eighty percent of all that lives in Australia, plant and animal, exists nowhere else.

pair of Stephens Island wrens, which were found only on a small, isolated island in New Zealand's Cook Strait. All were killed by a lighthouse keeper's cat.

Diego, a giant tortoise, single-handedly saved his species from extinction. As one of the few surviving representatives of his kind, he was moved from an American zoo to a breeding program on the Galápagos Islands, in Ecuador. Diego's unrelenting mating efforts helped raise the number of these tortoises from just fifteen to two thousand. One hundred years old, Diego keeps going.

Conservationists, it seems, are dedicated to protecting the weak and vulnerable, the endangered and the abused. Nature generally promotes the strong and the wily, the resilient and versatile.

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

The most endangered species The honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world State of integrity Sensitive, open and strong

Grandpa mentioned another endangered artifact, in Brazil.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness. —Rilke