Endangered Species Quotes

• We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

  Loretta Lynch

  Responsibility, Generations, Sake

  "Philadelphia art store owner charged with smuggling African ivory", www.cnn.com. July 26, 2011.

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• Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Trying, May

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• Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

  Animal, Hell, Innocent

  Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday

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• 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.

  Jay Inslee

  Rivers, Bird, Tree

  "House Approves Revised Endangered Species Act". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.

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• If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Nature, Long, Community

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Environmental, Tools, Decline

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• The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

  Jack Hanna

  Snow, Leopards, Leopard Print

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• Endangered species are our friends.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Species

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Ideas, Fundamentals

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.276, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• [My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving.

  Joel Sartore

  Hard Work, Order, World

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• My good mood felt like an endangered species.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Good Mood, Felt, Cole St Clair

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Sinner”, p.154, Scholastic Inc.

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• The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

  Dave Barry

  Real, Whales, Literature

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• Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

  Bruce Babbitt

  Thinking, Breathing, Rivers

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• Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

  Patrice Leconte

  Anniversary, Marijuana, People

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• It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.

  Wavy Gravy

  Hunting, Impact, Whales

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• We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act.

  Don Young

  Country, Government, Hands

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• It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

  Arianna Huffington

  Exaggeration Is, Class, Middle

  Arianna Huffington (2010). “Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream”, p.4, Broadway Books

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• Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism?

  Charles Clover

  Marine, Night, Sea

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  Chris Martin

  Horse, Trying, Albums

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• Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

  Alex Meraz

  Support, Charity, Helping

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• Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

  Prince Philip

  Country, Classic, Notorious

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• I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash now:... [ellipsis in source] take all the regulations away; weaken existing legislation; the endangered species act is too severe, too restrictive; let there be carte blanche for real-estate developers. Because if we really have to confront wildness, solitude, and serenity, both the fierceness and compassionate nature of the land, then we ultimately have to confront it in ourselves, and it's easier to be numb, to be distracted, to be disengaged.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Real, Thinking

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• Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

  Lynda Obst

  Ambition, Two, People

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• Strangers are an endangered species.

  Adrienne Rich

  Stranger, Species

  Adrienne Rich (1993). “A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

  Andrew Vachss

  Bullying, Would Be, Prevention

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