Frank Fraser Darling

Frank Fraser Darling (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. He gives his name to the Fraser Darling effect. Quotes Carnivore Carnivorous animals must eat flesh or die; primitive man may be in the same state, whether he be Eskimo or San people Bushman; what about the sportsman? The man who owns a deer forest, Driven grouse shooting grouse moor or partridge manor has a moral right to take a share of the natural increase of the animals on his ground if he uses decent methods. Wild Country: A Highland Naturalist's Notes and Pictures Cambridge University Press 1938 https://books.google.com/books?id=E_U9AAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=eskimo 98 (103 pages) As the dominant mammal on the face of the earth, as the clever one, the only one as far as we know capable of reflection and of accumulating knowledge, our duty is plain, to serve the lesser creation, to keep our world clean and pass on to posterity a record of which we shall not feel shame. Wilderness and Plenty (1970); as quoted in Stephen R. L. Clark, The Moral Status of Animals (Clarendon Press, 1977), p. 32. Quotes about Frank Fraser Darling This book is a record of pioneer farming on the Tanera Mòr island of Tanera, one of the Summer Isles Summer Islands, lying a little way out from the mainland in western Ross-shire. Here the author and his devoted wife became the owners of an abandoned and ruinous house, and by sheer hard work, without, as the author says, any considerable bank balance to which to turn for comfort, have renovated the land with lime and basic slag, have repaired the ruined quay, have brought the garden again to life, and although their work is not yet completed, have changed the face of the land. Seton Gordon, review of Island Farm by Dr. F. Fraser Darling Nature 153 3883 390–391 1 April 1944 https://doi.org/10.1038/153390a0 10.1038/153390a0 External links Category:1903 births Category:1979 deaths Category:Non-fiction authors Category:Zoologists from England Category:Academics from the United Kingdom Category:Ornithologists Category:People from Sheffield Category:Ecologists