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Joan Ward-Harris
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“The more active an animal is in its natural state, the crueler it is to cage it.”
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“To me, squirrels are almost fairy people. They are marvelously round: roundly curved body, curved shell-like ears, curved haunches, tail either S-curved over the back like a mantle, or flying straight out behind the long slender body ... ”
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“Worry is surely one of life's more futile activities...”
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“Wanton killing for sport, or euphemistically, for 'management' seems to me a poor way of demonstrating our higher intelligence. Predators hunt to live. Only man hunts for the sheer triumph of killing. It is a fact that only man is uplifted by the spectacle of an animal's death.”
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“... when humans interfere with nature something always goes wrong, despite good intentions. And once things are out of kilter, we cannot restore the balance.”
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“Whatever sales people or sentimental books may state, wild animals do not make good pets. Captivity, no matter how 'kind,' is always cruel.”
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“The price of survival is education and eternal vigilance.”
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“All progressive legislation has always had its genesis in the mind of one person. ... One can do much. And one and one and one can move mountains.”