Prince Philip Quotes

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Above all, Jane Goodall continues to teach us that, as humans, we are no more entitled to our glorious planet than the chimps she so lovingly protects.

Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

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

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.

Nature, too, shall live its own life. We must beware not to disrupt it with the color of our houses and interior fittings. yet we should not attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together into a higher unity.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

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.

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.

I think humans have to learn a new way of dwelling on this earth. A way of living with their companions: animals, plants and fish.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

No species is more important than others.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.