Thomas Lovejoy quotes

Thomas Lovejoy quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.”
-- Thomas Lovejoy

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“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.”
-- Thomas Lovejoy

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“Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.”
-- Thomas Lovejoy

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“The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.”
-- Thomas Lovejoy

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“Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.”
-- Thomas Lovejoy

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