“Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have evolved alongside us as co-inheritors of all the beauty and abundance of life on this planet”
Source: Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains Why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect
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“They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?”
Source: The Long Walk

Source: Accepting the Universe (1920), p.111
“Nature is our mother. She is not a resource for human consumption.”

Облетев Землю в корабле-спутнике, я увидел, как прекрасна наша планета. Люди, будем хранить и преумножать эту красоту, а не разрушать её!
Russian phrase, handwritten and signed after his historic spaceflight, photo of facsimile published in Syny goluboi planety 3rd.edition (1981) by L. Lebedev, A. Romanov, and B/ Luk'ianov; the first edition was translated into English as Sons of the Blue Planet (1973) by L. A. Lebedev

“What kind of intelligent beings would evolve on a planet that is all mountains?”
“Stupid ones!” Casker said.
Untouched by Human Hands (p. 75)
Short fiction, Untouched by Human Hands (1954)

Quoted by Lawrence W. Baker in Animal Rights and Welfare: A Documentary and Reference Guide (2015), p. 38.
Source: The Esoteric Tradition (1935), Chapter 6

“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”
Variant: Live the beauty or your own reality.
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues