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zoos snakes earth-day
A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum. Edward Abbey
zoos guitar one-day
I went to the zoo one day and saw a chimp playing with a beat-up acoustic guitar in a way I had never seen before. Instead of using the pick the chimp was banging the neck and tapping it with its fingers. I knew the chimp was on to something so I practiced this new technique in my room for hours until I'd perfected it. Eddie Van Halen
zoos animal land
Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage. Elinor Glyn
zoos people looks
A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at. David Sedaris
zoos thinking people
I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign. Carl Sagan
zoos animal cells
What do the animals do in the zoo? That's the same thing that I do in my cell. I play with myself. I make little string dolls. I talk to roaches. I'm in jail for nine counts of murder, and I didn't do it. I'm in solitary confinement, may I add. Charles Manson
zoos animal exotic
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road) or that it's solitary (you can, so they say, be alone in a crowded room) or full of exotic animals (there are more at the zoo). it's that five miles out in the woods you can't buy anything. Bill McKibben
zoos mistake color
Newt Gingrich was campaigning at a zoo this week and he was bitten by a penguin. Newt Gingrich is always campaigning at zoos. Mitt Romney once did a photo op at a zoo. That was a big mistake, because he stood next to the chameleon, and HE changed colors. Bill Maher
zoos average ideas
We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos. Bob Barker
animal decision environmental
For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the animals. Alexandra Paul
animal eight two
Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both. Alexandra Fuller
animal based biology happening interested neglect surprising time
I've always been interested in animal behavior, and I keep reading about it because it's so surprising all the time - so many things are happening around us that we neglect to look at. Part of the passion I have for biology is based on this wonderment. Isabella Rossellini
animals family films great grew looking might mystique people stars
I grew up in a family of filmmakers, so I always wanted to make films about animals, especially comical films. Something about animals amuses me. And they have a great mystery. It's the same mystique some people might feel looking at the stars or the ocean.
animal men thinking
The thinking man must oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo. We need a boundless ethics which will include the animals also. My life is full of meaning to me. The life around me must be full of significance to it. If I want others to respect my life, then I must respect the other life I see however strange it may be to mine. Ethics in our western world has hitherto been largely limited to the relation of man to man... but that is a limited ethics. Albert Schweitzer
animal sacred plant
Don't stop to ask whether the animal or plant you meet deserves your sympathy, or how much it feels, or even whether it can feel at all: respect it and consider all life sacred.
animal compassion circles
We need a boundless ethic, one which will include the animals, too. Until we extend the circle of his compassions to all living things, we will not find peace.
animal men thinking-man
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.
animal bad creator creature finds himself including judgment kingdom man nature work
Man is the only creature in the animal kingdom that sits in judgment on the work of the Creator and finds it bad - including himself and Nature Elbert Hubbard
land love strangers therefore
Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. Bible Bible
land legal meet preserve private public seems turns work
So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.
land
One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.
landing
Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.
land losing whenever
Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.
landing security until zone
We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.
landscape next needs
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades. Dieter Rams
land hands people
...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. Eleanor Roosevelt
land urban wants
If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,