“Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.” — Russell Banks Quote

“Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.”

“If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.”

“But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.”

“For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.”

“Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.”

“The 60s passed and faded and I grew older, and in 1987 bought a house in upstate New York, and it turned out that John Brown was buried down the road from my house and that he had lived there longer than anywhere else and his house was still standing.”

“We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.”

“To me extremism is targeting endangered whales in a whale sanctuary in violation of a moratorium. That, to me, is extreme.”

“Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.”

“I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.”

“I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.”

“If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.”