We are weary of witnessing the greed, selfishness and cruelty of "civilized" man toward the wild creatures of the earth. We are sick of tales of slaughter and pictures of carnage. It is time for a sweeping Reformation; and that is precisely what we now demand.

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation, Preface (p. x), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1913