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:
“The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one,
and come away.
For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;”
—Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 10–12)
“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)