Wildlife Conservation Quotes

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

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

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

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.

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

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

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

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.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

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.

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

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

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.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

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

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.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

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.

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

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.

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

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

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.