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For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

— Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962–77 (1978)

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It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.

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