Quotes on Wildlife Conservation

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.