Quotes About Conservation

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

Later in life, I started an organization that works to save tortoises and turtles that are threatened, but in full disclosure, I still always had a fascination with people who kept animals.

I became an environmentalist at 16 when I threw a fundraiser for Rainforest Action Network. At 27 I helped save the last unprotected ancient redwoods in California. In my 30s I advocated renewables and successfully helped persuade the Obama administration to invest $90 billion into them.

I'm thrilled to be partnered up with SeaWorld.

Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

Consuming less means throwing away less, while reusing things actually helps to save the planet as well as the pennies.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

'Roar' is a film based on the tigers in the Sundarbans. It is the story of a battle between man and the beast.

My neighbors are crocodiles and tigers and giraffes.

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

In most states, it's more difficult to get a license for your dog than it is to buy a big cat. Right now, there are more tigers in the state of Texas than in all of India.

tree-hugging babe," he said. "Bean-babe. Geesh, trees? Plastic?

Bottles and food wrappings bobbing in the tide

Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

Lack of time and money create really bad green practices.