Quotes About Conservation

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

No species is more important than others.

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

In a free market and in the absence of planning, developers will flatten every hillside, fill every canyon, obliterate every endangered species, and pave over every wetland they think they can make a buck on.

The key to saving the Amazon and the rest of the world's great rainforests is actually very simple: just put a fair price on the role they play in providing a quarter of the world's oxygen, a fifth of fresh water, and 60 percent of its species.

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment into parks and other game sanctuaries.

The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.

It was an overwhelming moment to perform in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic. Dia Mirza and I were the celebrity ambassadors for India International Snow Leopard Conservation Forum. I even met the Russian president; all of us pledged to save snow leopards and other endangered species.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

If we stop dragging trawls and dredges through it, the life of the seas would recover with astonishing speed. Because most marine animals are highly mobile during at least one stage of their development, the rewilding of the seas needs little help from humans.

I don't like spending money.