Nature Conservation

🇺🇸Aldo Leopold

Science

1887–1948

"To the mouse, snow means freedom from want and fear. … To a rough-legged hawk, a thaw means freedom from want and fear."

🇰🇪Richard Leakey

Politics

humanism

1944–2022

"It is impossible to imagine existence in the absence of subjective sensation we call reflective consciousness."

🇺🇸Edward Abbey

Literature

green anarchism

1927–1989

"The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years."

🇺🇸Frederick Russell Burnham

Literature

1861–1947

"As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood."

🇬🇧James Lovelock

Science

1919–2022

"Bacteria... have been here for three and a half billion years, and without them we have no chance whatsoever of survival. Humans are something very recent, like the froth on top of a glass of beer."

🇺🇸Elizabeth Kolbert

Literature

b. 1961

"After a mass extinction, it has generally tended to take many millions of years for life to recover. It's not something that you bounce back from, from one day to the next."