#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

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

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

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper. ↗

— Daphne Zuniga

#endangered #forests #paper #slaughtered #toilet

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#continues #endangered #fine #just #whale

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves. ↗

— Earl Warren

#convict #criminals #endangered #illegal #liberty

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. ↗

— Don Young

#because #country #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. ↗

— Wavy Gravy

#documentary #endangered #endangered species #enormous #had

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cause #endangered #good #good cause #gravely