Thomas Lovejoy famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.
-- Thomas Lovejoy -
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.
-- Thomas Lovejoy -
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.
-- Thomas Lovejoy -
The biggest problems are the damn national sectors of these developing countries. These countries think that they have the right to develop their resources as they see fit. They want to become powers.
-- Thomas Lovejoy -
Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man.
-- Thomas Lovejoy
-
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
-
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
-
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
-
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
-
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
-
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop.
-
That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
-
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
-
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies.
-
Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming increasingly sustainable, clean and efficient; and we are constantly becoming better at protecting biodiversity.
You may also like:
-
Bert Holldobler
Biologist -
Bjorn Lomborg
Writer -
Charles Darwin
Naturalist -
Donella Meadows
Environmental Writer -
E. O. Wilson
Biologist -
Herman E. Daly
Economist -
Kenneth E. Boulding
Economist -
Lester R. Brown
Environmentalist -
Norman Myers
Environmentalist -
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist -
Paul R. Ehrlich
Population Biologist -
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist -
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist -
Stephen Schneider
Professor -
Stuart L. Pimm
Biologist -
William E. Rees
Professor -
James Gustave Speth
Lawyer