Diana Vreeland Quotes

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

I love nature.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.

Endangered species are our friends.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.