A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these sp…

- George Schaller

To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Ser…

- George Schaller

My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain cu…

- George Schaller

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

- George Schaller

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human e…

- George Schaller

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

- George Schaller

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectu…

- George Schaller

For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, …

- George Schaller

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes fro…

- George Schaller