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- In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara, 1907
- I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its implications. I also hunt without killing- whether by accident or design-and I do not apologize for that either. There is room in longbow country for a spectrum of tastes and attitudes, and that is as it should be.
- E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- I am the Lorax, and I'll yell and I'll shout for the fine things on earth that are on their way out!
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991), The Lorax
- Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from
- Half of the world knows not how the other half lives.
- George Herbert (1593 - 1633), Jacula Prudentum
- The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
- Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966
- To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of a Man Under Socialism, 1881
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