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By Neglecting Our Garden, We Are Storing Up For Ourselves, In The Not Very Distant Future, A World Catastrophe As Bad As Any Atomic War, And We Are Doing It With All The Bland Complacency Of An Idiot Child Chopping Up A Rembrandt With A Pair Of Scissors.

You Cannot Begin To Preserve Any Species Of Animal Unless You Preserve The Habitat In Which It Dwells. Disturb Or Destroy That Habitat And You Will Exterminate The Species As Surely As If You Had Shot It. So Conservation Means That We Have To Preserve Forest And Grassland, River And Lake, Even The Sea Itself. This Is Vital Not Only For The Preservation Of Animal Life Generally, But For The Future Existence Of Man Himself - A Point That Seems To Escape Many People.

When Man Continues To Destroy Nature, He Saws The Very Branch On Which He Sits Since The Rational Protection Of Nature Is At The Same Time The Protection Of Mankind

Gradually The Magic Of The Island [corfu] Settled Over Us As Gently And Clingingly As Pollen.

Until We Consider Animal Life To Be Worthy Of The Consideration And Reverence We Bestow Upon Old Books And Pictures And Historic Monuments, There Will Always Be The Animal Refugee Living A Precarious Life On The Edge Of Extermination, Dependent For Existence On The Charity Of A Few Human Beings.