Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; t…

Gerald Durrell
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Remember that the animals and plants have no M.P. they can write to; they can't perform sit-down strikes or, indeed, strikes of any sort; they have nobody to speak for them except us, the human beings who share the world with them but do not own it. ✨ Gerald Durrell (2011). Catch Me a Colobus, p.165, Pan Macmillan
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