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QUOTE OF NOTE: "The Endangered Species Act must be balanced to put humans on the same level as fish and insects...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "I don't have any hobbies. I don't hunt and fish. I don't spend money on golf. I'm going to take some of our savings and try this...
...that the entire New York Times Book Review from most of the past century was bound in leather in the depths of Widener. I must have subconsciously realized it before, since the Harvard library system contains far more obscure journals bearing titles such as Marine Oils, Fish Meal and The World Market for Bovine Meat, but I had never thought about the possibility of actually holding it in my hands. Once I discovered the right shelf, I opened up a volume from 1930s, and there was Hemingway; one from the 1960s, and there was Mailer. It was the literary history...
Hunters' concern about overpopulation, besides being ungrounded, rings false. Many of the most commonly fished or hunted species have been stocked in convenient locations only so they may more easily be fished or hunted. For example, inedible fish in Cape Cod ponds were poisoned to death and replaced with trout at the demand of fishermen. Hunters may also cause clearcutting to encourage increases in the populations of their preferred prey. Hunters often cause overpopulation as they claim to control...
...looking forward to it tremendously," Simpson said. "We have three children, and we love being around young people. People say, 'Are you sad to be leaving the Senate?' I say I'm not going home to fish. I'm going into the most exciting phase of my life...