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The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.
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nature
bears
wildlife
environment
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Margaret Atwood |
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That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.
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wildlife
wild
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Carl Hiaasen |
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The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
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science
dune
wildlife
ecology
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Frank Herbert |
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The spruce and cedar on its shores, hung with gray lichens, looked at a distance like the ghosts of trees. Ducks were sailing here and there on its surface, and a solitary loon, like a more living wave, -- a vital spot on the lake's surface, -- laughed and frolicked, and showed its straight leg, for our amusement.
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philosophy
wildlife
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The moose will perhaps one day become extinct; but how naturally then, when it exists only as a fossil relic, and unseen as that, may the poet or sculptor invent a fabulous animal with similar branching and leafy horns, -- a sort of fucus or lichen in bone, -- to be the inhabitant of such a forest as this!
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philosophy
wildlife
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The evening before I departed I stood on the rim of a lagoon on Isla Rabida. Flamingos rode on its dark surface like pink swans, apparently asleep. Small, curved feathers, shed from their breasts, drifted away from them over the water on a light breeze. I did not move for an hour. It was a moment of such peace, every troubled thread in a human spirit might have uncoiled and sorted itself into a graceful order. Other flamingos stood in the shallows with diffident elegance in the falling light, not feeding but only staring off toward the ocean. They seemed a kind of animal I had never quite seen before.
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nature
peacefulness
wildlife
ocean
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Barry Lopez |
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Yet wild things have a far more rational fear of us than is ours of them...
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wildlife
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Angela Carter |