Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.
Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.