Frank Fraser Darling Quotes

Sir Frank Fraser Darling FRSE was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. He gives his name to the Fraser Darling effect. Wikipedia

✵ 23. June 1903 – 22. October 1979

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Frank Fraser Darling Quotes

“As the dominant mammal on the face of the earth, as the clever one, the only one as far as we know capable of reflection and of accumulating knowledge, our duty is plain, to serve the lesser creation, to keep our world clean and pass on to posterity a record of which we shall not feel shame.”

Frank Fraser Darling

Wilderness and Plenty (1970); as quoted in Stephen R. L. Clark, The Moral Status of Animals (Clarendon Press, 1977), p. 32.

World , Feeling , Knowledge

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