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:
“All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“The second day of Christmas,
My true love sent to me
Two turtle doves,”
—Unknown. The Twelve Days of Christmas (l. 4–6)
“I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)