Quotes About Conservation

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

It takes 25 years or so for a male sperm whale to reach the edge of social maturity, when it attains the size and weight of those I saw being butchered. It took less than four hours to transform those once vibrant creatures into the basic ingredients of candle wax, lubricating oils, cosmetics, fertilizer, ivory trinkets, and food for domesticated animals.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

It won't kill you to wear that same pair of socks one more day.

Forests, hills, mountains, rivers, and green streams had no protection in the face of rapacity.

As a girl she dreamed of following Fossey and Goodall to Africa; by the time she got out of grad school, there were so few apes left that her best option was to work in a zoo; now she's looking at a job as a trainer of virtual pets.

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

Protecting animals is very important to me, and I think speaking out against fur is an amazing cause.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

The only way we can reduce the number of these endangered species is to improve and provide additional habitat where they can live and reproduce.

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

Endangered species are our friends.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.