#endanger

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cause #endangered #good #good cause #gravely

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#endangered species #exaggeration #longer #middle-class #say

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#any #bird #endangered #endangered species #endangered species act

David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot cards seemed somehow related. Because species disappear when their habitat does, he photographed them against the nowhere of a black backdrop (which sometimes meant propping up a black velvet cloth in the most unlikely places and discouraging climates), and so each creature, each plant, stood as though for a formal portrait alone against the darkness. The photographs looked like cards too, card from the deck of the world in which each creature describes a history, a way of being in the world, a set of possibilities, a deck from which cards are being thrown away, one after another. Plants and animals are a language, even in our reduced, domesticated English, where children grow like weeds or come out smelling like roses, the market is made up of bulls and bears, politics of hawks and doves. Like cards, flora and fauna could be read again and again, not only alone but in combination, in the endlessly shifting combinations of a nature that tells its own stories and colors ours, a nature we are losing without even knowing the extent of that loss. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#environment #habitat #nature #page- #nature

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. ↗

— Dave Barry

#many #real #real threat #species #threat

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#endangered #life #live #more #more and more

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#america #been #before #currently #dealt

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. ↗

— John Cheever

#fan #fans #life #literary #literary men

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. ↗

— Norm Dicks

#act #causing #decline #effective #endangered

Man is imperfect. The reality he creates is always endangered by man. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#creates #endangered #imperfect #man #reality