Wild Life quotes

Wild Life

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

8 quotes
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov Playwright, Short Story Writer

"Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day."

Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Politician, Author

"The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us."

Bryan Fuller
Bryan Fuller Writer, Producer

"We have this wild life experience that is full of fantastic minutiae and banal, huge events at the same time. Yet, all of it shrinks in the shadow of death. It's hard to argue with death as a game-changer."

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