Quotes About Nature

Environmentalism isn't a discipline or specialty. It's a way of seeing our place in the world. And we need everybody to see the world that way. Don't think 'In order to make a difference I have to become an environmentalist.'

Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity.

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature.

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

Other species help children develop empathy.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

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

I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science.

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

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Molecules A and B meet, marry, and beget the species. This takes place in one-millionth of a billionth of a second. This is a fundamental process in nature, and the world was looking for a way to be able to see the process. But many brilliant people said it couldn't be done.

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

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species.

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.

We are a complex species to observe.

Why is it not just as likely that there were as many small general nearly at first as now, and as great a disproportion in the number of their species?

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'