The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. — Jim Fowler
Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect. — Prince Philip
The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it. — Jim Fowler
The wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will. — Theodore Roosevelt
If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love. — Steve Irwin
Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns. — Mahatma Gandhi
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists. — Jane Goodall
Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things. — Gerald Durrell
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. — Gale Norton
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe. — Joy Adamson
The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. — John Muir
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior. — Dian Fossey
Short Wildlife Conservation Quotes
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men — Gifford Pinchot
We don’t own the planet Earth, we belong to it. And we must share it with our wildlife. — Steve Irwin
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency — Gifford Pinchot
If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves. — Steve Irwin
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. — Stewart Udall
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders. — Edward Abbey
Biodiversity is the greatest treasure we have... Its diminishment is to be prevented at all cost. — Thomas Eisner
Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people. — Walt Whitman
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. — Theodore Roosevelt
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they have lost all incentive because we've given them too much money.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. — E. O. Wilson
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. — Mollie Beattie
Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf. — Aldo Leopold
It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity. — Andrew Linzey
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA. — Dennis Cardoza
I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal. — Allan Bloom
Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves. We put teams of people on the frontline in the battle against feral animals, wildfires and noxious weeds. Science underpins everything we do. — Kristy Hinze
Nature Conservation Quotes
The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it. — David Attenborough
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children — Chief Seattle
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. — Thomas Fuller
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi
Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die. — Gil Scott-Heron
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. — Dr. Seuss
The conservative "thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless. — Russell Kirk
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. — Lynn Townsend White, Jr.
While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment. — Barry Goldwater
Wildlife Quotes
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind. — Albert Einstein
The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife. — Rachel Carson
Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight. — James Stewart
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person. — Fred Bear
I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them. — Bindi Irwin
Our lifestyle, our wildlife, our land and our water remain critical to our definition of Wyoming and to our economic future. — Dave Freudenthal
I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa. — Candice Swanepoel
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country. — Gaylord Nelson
For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies. — Terry Tempest Williams
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans. — Ron Kind
Wildlife Animals Quotes
No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink. — Murray Banks
We don't have to go to wild places to find wildlife. A surprisingly wide range of species can be found in our sities and towns, from familiar animals like the raccoon to more exotic ones like the mountain lion. — Roger Tory Peterson
I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me. — Mark Twain
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature. — Frans Lanting
Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way. — John Muir
My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration. — Joanna Lumley
Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it. — David Quammen
One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. — Robert T. Bakker
People are beginning to realize that it's important that we see animals in a natural state - but through film, through video, through documentaries, at wildlife preserves, and through other humanely protected ways, which don't involve... performing for us. — Montel Williams
From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men — William Inge
It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and
preserve it. — Edward Abbey
The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans. Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature. — Jim Fowler
The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. — Robert Dold
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh water, clean air, tillable soil, forests, wilderness, habitat for wildlife, minerals and recreational assets. — Gaylord Nelson
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection. — Mark Carwardine
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population. — Norman Borlaug
Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage. — John F. Kennedy
The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen. — Walt Disney
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. — E. O. Wilson
Environment Conservation Quotes
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity — Chico Mendes
The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense. — Ronald Reagan
When you defile the pleasant streams,
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams,
And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater
In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. — Paul Brooks
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price — Ansel Adams
Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea. — George Carlin
Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them — Aldo Leopold
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on? — Margaret Murie
The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man. — Friedrich Nietzsche
To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. — Aldo Leopold
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. — Aldo Leopold
I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art? — John F. Kerry
Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of color and their constituents reflects their life experiences of social, economic, and political disenfranchisement. — Robert D Bullard
The message is simple: love and conserve our wildlife. — Steve Irwin
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner
Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things. — Theodore Roosevelt
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. — Rachel Carson
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior. — Steve Irwin
...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective. — Rachel Carson
We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it. — Wendell Berry
By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration. — E. F. Schumacher
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. — Gale Norton
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method. — Theodore Roosevelt
There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us! — Mindy Baha El Din
For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species. — David Jeremiah Barron
And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles. — Sigurd F. Olson
I think it is very important to conserve and protect the natural world. I’ve just come back from Costa Rica and they are really big on eco tourism. They have lots of reserves, and they are really into protecting wildlife. I visited a reserve called Cabo Blanco. You walk into the reserve and there are capucine monkeys swinging from the trees and sloths. I am big into nature, and seeing animals in their natural habitats. I love it. — Colin Morgan
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications. — Thomas Lovejoy
Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. — Wendell Berry
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