Laurent Baheux Quotes

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Nature is so phenomenal.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

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

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

We are dependent not so much on Earth, the third planet orbiting the sun, as on Gaea, the integrated system that includes, sustains and is shaped by life.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Awareness is key. In the absence of information, none of us know what is happening and what could be jeopardizing our health, our water supply, and our planet.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

The planet is beautiful.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle - those things are good gifts. The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts. We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn't make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn't live without them.

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

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

We seem to think we have some control over this planet.