— John Gould (writing in 1863), quoted by H. J. Frith in A. B. Costin and H. J.
Frith, Conservation, Pelican Books, 1971,
131.
We will probably save most of the large species that interest
or amuse us (we will lose — are losing at an accelerating pace — untold numbers
of smaller, unnoted creatures).
— Stephen Jay Gould (1941 – 2002) in ‘How does a panda fit?’ in An Urchin in the Storm, Penguin, 1987.
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt
thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing
of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them
alive. And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou shalt gather
it to thee; and it shall be food for thee, and for them.
— Holy Bible, Genesis, 6:19-21.
Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male
and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and his female; to keep seed alive
upon the face of all the earth.
— Holy Bible, Genesis, 7:2-3.
There went in two and two unto Noah into the Ark, the male and
the female.
— Holy Bible, Genesis, 7:9.
We raise farm animals for slaughter; destroy forests; pollute
rivers and lakes until no fish can live there; hunt deer and elk for sport, leopards
for their pelts, and whales for dog food; entwine dolphins, gasping and writhing,
in great tuna nets; and club seal pups to death for ‘population management’… What
is protected in many human societies is not life, but human life.
— Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden, 1977,
196.
Extinction is demeaning of life.
— Peter Macinnis in Peter Macinnis and Andrew Clark, Applied Studies, Longman-Cheshire, 1993.
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