"When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife."
"For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest."
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Source: Speech at the World Wildlife Fund: British National Appeal Banquet, London, 1962. The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77, 1978.
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