John Bell-Travelling to Europe- Jackal Hunting in Palestine-Journey Down the Ancient Nile-Damn the Old Mummy Collectors-Comprehending the Origin of Species -Evolution from the Stork-Thomas Huxley and Man’s Place in NatureĬhapter Three Of Science, Fish, and Robert B.
and the Civil War Surrogate-The Art of Taxidermy-The Talented Mr. ANNIE DILLARD, Holy the Firm (1984)Ĭhapter One The Education of a Darwinian Naturalist Birds Above All-The Face of God-Sitting at the Feet of Darwin and Huxley-The Swashbuckling Adventures of Captain Mayne Reid -Boy Hunters and the White Buffalo-The Last Link-The Foraging Ants-Bear Bob Stories-Collecting for the Roosevelt Museum- Drawn to the Hudson River Valley-Of James Fenimore Cooper and the Adirondack Park-Albert Bickmore and the American Museum of Natural History-In Search of Live AnimalsĬhapter Two Animal Rights and Evolution Protection of Harmless Wildlife-Feeling Pain-T.R.’s Family and the Humane Movement-Henry Bergh and the SPCA-Are Turtles Insects?-Theodore Sr. You won’t be able to sleep, or need to, for the joy of it. Be victim to abruptness and seizures, events intercalated, swellings of heart. THEODORE ROOSEVELT, A Book-Lover’s Holidays in the Open (1916) And learn power, however sweet they call you, learn power, the smash of the holy once more, and signed by its name. The movement for the conservation of wild life and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The “greatest good for the greatest number” applies to the number within the womb of time, compared to which those now alive form but an insignificant fraction. Utley (aka “Old Bison”) Historian of the American Westĭefenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying that “the game belongs to the people.” So it does and not merely to the people now alive, but to the unborn people. Gable (1943–2005), executive director of the Theodore Roosevelt Association and Sheila Schafer of Medora, North Dakota, whom I love with all my heart and Robert M.
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