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David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed somehow related. Because species disappear when their habitat does, he photographed them against the nowhere of a black backdrop (which sometimes meant propping up a black velvet cloth in the most unlikely places and discouraging climates), and so each creature, each plant, stood as though for a formal portrait alone against the darkness. The photographs looked like cards too, card from the deck of the world in which each creature describes a history, a way of being in the world, a set of possibilities, a deck from which cards are being thrown away, one after another. Plants and animals are a language, even in our reduced, domesticated English, where children grow like weeds or come out smelling like roses, the market is made up of bulls and bears, politics of hawks and doves. Like cards, flora and fauna could be read again and again, not only alone but in combination, in the endlessly shifting combinations of a nature that tells its own stories and colors ours, a nature we are losing without even knowing the extent of that loss. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#environment #habitat #nature #page- #nature

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#endangered #life #live #more #more and more

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

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Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. ↗

— James Madison

#abuse of power #also #endangered #liberty #may

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

#cart #coherent #conference #endangered #endangered species

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#endangered #false #false modesty #fidelity #inconsistent

I take office during the most difficult moment in the country's recent history. The country can be saved - it's up to us. I think it is obvious for those who support this government to undertake the commitment and ensure that our country's euro membership is not endangered. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

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It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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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. ↗

— Bobby Jindal

#anybody #classify #collecting #economy #endangered

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#destruction #endangered #further #human #human species