Pandas quotes

Pandas

19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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"One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it's a finite resource, constantly in danger of extinction, that must be carefully tracked and monitored, like pandas?"

Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist

"I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms."

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