"I was also studying herpetology at the time and we were supposed to go out and pickle 50 snakes and lizards before the end of the semester. Well, I was studying herpetology because I liked snakes and lizards, so I ended up dropping out of grad school by the middle of the first semester and I have been a professional rabble-rousing conservationist ever since."

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- Dave Foreman, from the first chapter of Defending the Earth (via vidagloriosa)

This reminds of me of how John James Audubon, the namesake of today’s awesome Audubon Society killed thousands of birds and helped contribute to the carrier pigeon extinction. BAD SCIENCE!