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Re: Farmers and Conservation

Luc,

Wonderful quote. Thanks for passing it on. I assume you meant you wanted
the know the original sentence in French, n'est pas? Not English.
Who is McMillan and what is the origin of the quote?


At 08:56 AM 09/01/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When it comes to nature conservation (whatever might be the subject), I 
>always intend to quote McMillan's sentence (translated from french) :
>
>" What maters in the preservation of the condors and their relatives, is not 
>quite that we do need the condors themselves, but rather that we need to 
>develop the human qualities to save them; because they are just the same one 
>we will need to save ourselves"...
>
>I guess that instead of condors you can put any plant or animal name... or 
>ecosystem even...
>
>By the way, I would appreciate to know the original sentence in english.
>
>Luc
>
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