Archie Carr quotes
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“For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.”
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“Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.”
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“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”
-- Archie CarrSource : Archie Fairly Carr (1967). “So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles”
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“All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.”
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“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”
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“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”
Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India
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Source : "Arithmetic, Population and Energy". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2002.
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“Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.”
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“Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.”
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“The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.”
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