World Turtle Day
Beginning in 2000, ATR sponsored World Turtle Day in an effort to increase awareness of the plight of turtles and tortoises and the environments that support them.
Read more about this topic: American Tortoise Rescue
Famous quotes containing the words world, turtle and/or day:
“By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
“The second day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 4–6)
“The day is not purer than the depths of my heart.”
—Jean Racine (1639–1699)