Quotes about Conservation

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates.

The most effective tree-related strategy for climate change is to stop cutting down so many of the trees we already have.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

I'm always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

In Tanzania, the chimps are isolated in a very tiny patch of forest. I flew over it 13 years ago and realized that, basically, all the trees had gone, that people all around the park are struggling to survive. It became very clear that there was no way to protect the chimps while the people were in this dire circumstance.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

God put the human race in charge of managing the resources of the entire planet for the benefit of all life. Therefore, we, of all people on this planet, should be concerned about environmental issues and doing what we can to enhance the beauty and productivity of the natural realm.

The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.