Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

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

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

We've all heard of the surveys revealing that teenagers think cows lay eggs, and others where children can identify more brand logos than trees, by a staggering margin. My view is that children will form a significant part of the green fightback. They instinctively understand the value of the environment.

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

I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.

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

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.

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

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

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

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our 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.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

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

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.