Quotes About Environment

Endangered species are our friends.

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

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

In the separation of the human species from nature, life goes awry.

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.

Other species help children develop empathy.

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

As a member of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus and the Co-Chair of the Invasive Species Caucus, I'll continue to be an independent voice for our district.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

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.

Globalization is very destructive to our species.

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

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

If the world population continues to increase at the same rate, we will destroy the species.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

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.

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.