Quotes About Conservation

Earl: Augh! They're trying to take the wolf off the endangered list .Mooch: I know. But did you hear what they're putting back on the endangered list? Earl: What?Mooch: Empathy and compassion.

If the day comes when our descendants can venture with wonder into chestnut forests, we will have gained back more than a perfect tree. We will have gained a new reason for hope.

Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

We are literally eating the oceans alive and there are simply not enough fish to continue to feed an ever expanding population of humanity.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

The health of our seas determines the future of humanity.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

If you can't sleep, count sheep. Don't count endangered animals. You will run out.

Are you recycling? Are you!? You just killed a polar bear! YOU!

Man is an endangered species.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

Don't waste water on washing your shirt, use photoshop!

We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing.

If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.

Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

Hunting and gathering are in my blood. But I've lived long enough to witness a diminution in the seas, and to notice a fragility where once I saw - or assumed - an endless bounty.