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“We must stop seeing the natural world as a commodity and start seeing it as we would see a family member, something to love, protect, care for, and cherish.”
― Barry Babcock, TEACHERS IN THE FOREST: Essays from the last wilderness in Mississippi Headwaters Country

tags: conservation, environment, nature, riverfeet-press, science

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“I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.”
― Michael Brewer

tags: conservation, environmentalism, sports

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“There is simply no issue more important. Conservation is the preservation of human life on earth, and that, above all else, is worth fighting for.”
― Rob Stewart, Sharkwater

tags: conservation, fisheries, global-warming, overfishing, revolution, sharks, sharkwater

7 likes

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Aldo Leopold

tags: community, conservation, farming, land, nature, wilderness

13 likes

“The once-great country into which I'd been born now resembled its former self in name only. It didn't matter who was in charge. Those people were rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic and everyone knew it.”
― Ernest Cline, Ready Player One

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