"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

Animals, Ants, First

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"Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first."

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"My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it."

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"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."

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"I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them."

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