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— Stephen Jay Gould"I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms."
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In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
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