Wayne Pacelle: Wildlife

Wayne Pacelle is American activist. Explore interesting quotes on wildlife.

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“I’ve always had an affinity for wildlife, and the direct assault made on that wildlife by hunters and trappers has always infuriated me … At the same time, I don’t have a hands-on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I’m kind to them, but there’s no special bond between me and other animals…”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

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“Animals are no one’s property, and they have the right not be ‘taken,’ ‘harvested,’ or ‘culled’ or any other euphemism for murder that wildlife managers use. They are no one’s property, just as you and I are no one’s property other than our own.”

Wayne Pacelle

"Sabotaging Animal Rights for Deer Hunt," 1986

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“If society says that it doesn’t want the recreational killing of wildlife then we should do away with it, just the way we’ve done away with cockfighting and dogfighting.”

Wayne Pacelle

Interview in "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt," 1994

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“Having hunters oversee wildlife is like having Dracula guard the blood bank.”

Wayne Pacelle

Wayne Pacelle in: William G. Tapply, Who Speaks for People? https://books.google.com/books?id=OBxpK1FM1KYC&pg=PA8 Field & Stream, June 1991, p. 6