Archie Carr famous quotes

For most of the wild things on earth, the future must depend on the conscience of mankind.
-- Archie Carr

#Earth #Environment #Mankind

Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.
-- Archie Carr

#Determination #Marine #Turtles

I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.
-- Archie Carr

#Writing #Marine #Turtles

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.

We now to peace and darkness And earth and thee restore Thy creature that thou madest And wilt cast forth no more.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Take mankind as they are, and what are they governed by? Their passions.

The best service to mankind is to become immersed in one's True Self.