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Over the years I’ve collected various conservation biology-related quotes that have caught my attention, for whatever reason. I thought that it would make an interesting blog post (although I agree that quotes are a very weak form of wit). Regardless of their import, I hope you enjoy them and perhaps at least find them interesting, if not wise.
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It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for – the whole thing – rather than just one or two stars.
David Attenborough, BBC Interview
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It’s a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
David Attenborough, BBC Interview
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there’s a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
David Attenborough, BBC Interview
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The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
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The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
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As we race toward the future, we must never forget the fundamental reality of our situation: we are flying blind.
Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski & John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future
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Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.
Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
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