Quotes About Conservation

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

The best place for puffin watching is Sumburgh Head, at the south end of the Shetland mainland. There used to be a lighthouse there, but it's now a visitor centre and gallery; they run a webcam, so you can check on the puffins in advance.

When it comes to managing crocodiles, we are learning that it is actually more important to manage people. Learning how to keep people safe from crocodiles will ultimately protect visitors to croc territory as well as the crocodilians themselves.

The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.

I want the Forest Service to look at a vista with scenery, not only at lumber with a price tag.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

It's hard to appreciate the importance of the rainforest because it seems so far away, but it's vital to the survival of the planet as we know it.

There is a reason to have an agency called the EPA, and it has served an historical purpose I believe is vital to this country.

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

I've been shooting with this gentle beast of an elephant for my film 'Haathi Mere Saathi.' During the shoot, I got to know of the various problems they face. We got in touch with a few volunteers who are helping conserve the tusker's habitats and water reservoirs.

In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.

I won't leave the house without having a shower and, as much as it makes me a terrible anti-conservationist, I often have two a day.

When you dance you need an awful lot of energy. Off stage, you learn to conserve.

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

If nature were a bank, they would have already rescued it.

In Australia you're not allowed to go down to the beach and eat anything from the rocks. You just can't do it - help yourself to mussels and things like that because there's hardly any left and the government has now legislated against it.

No beehive. Beehives - we sort of put them - well, we revive them sometimes.

The earth and its resources belong of right to its people.