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"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."
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"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger."
"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."
"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."
"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."
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"Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man."
"Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty."
"Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book."
"Is it time uninterrupted? Only the present comprehended? Are our thoughts nothing but passing trains, no stops, devoid of dimension, whizzing by massive posters with repeating images? Catching a fragment from a window seat, yet another fragment from the next identical frame? If I write in the present yet digress, is that still real time? Real time, I reasoned, cannot be divided into sections like numbers on the face of a clock. If I write about the past as I simultaneously dwell in the present, am I still in real time? Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory."
"My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington."
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