#endangered

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. ↗

— Douglas Tallamy

#conservation #diversity #endangered #extinction #gardening

It may be underfunded and at times mismanaged, but the [Endangered Species] Act is an unprecedented attempt to delegate human-caused extinction to the chapters of history we would rather not revisit: the Slave Trade, the Indian Removal Policy, the subjection of women, child labor, segregation. The Endangered Species Act is a zero-tolerance law: no new extinctions. It keeps eyes on the ground with legal backing-the gun may be in the holster most of the time, but its available if necessary to keep species from disappearing. I discovered in my travels that a law protecting all animals and plants, all of nature, might be as revolutionary-and as American-as the Declaration of Independence. ↗

— Joe Roman

#endangered-species-act #patriotism #protection #wildlife #nature

Workable solutions for Earth are urgently needed. Saving seals and tigers, or fighting yet another oil pipeline through a wilderness area, while laudable, is merely shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. ↗

— Lawrence Anthony

#endangered-species #environmentalism #science #science

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance. ↗

— King Albert II

#endangered #fills #imposes #independence #itself

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#culture #endangered #leopard #much #plastic

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

#chefs #dining #endangered-species #fishing #sushi

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. ↗

— Jim Saxton

#act #critical #drastic #eliminate #endangered

When you have an advantage, you are obliged to attack; otherwise you are endangered to lose the advantage. ↗

— Wilhelm Steinitz

#attack #endangered #lose #obliged #otherwise

A world in which others controlled the course of their own development, would be a world in which the American system would be seriously endangered. ↗

— Benjamin Cohen

#controlled #course #development #endangered #others

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#conservations #endangered-species #exploration #history #the-west