Aleister Crowley Quotes

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

I grew a love for helpless, defenseless things. People would give me lions and jaguars. I had cheetahs, monkeys.

I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

Also, it is interesting that developing countries, with China and India perhaps in the lead, where the future of the global environment will be decided are now on board with the case for sustainable development.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

You either agree to implement the President’s policies or you resign. My conscience would not allow me to implement the withdrawal from the environmental Paris Accords.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

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

In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism.

America must not abdicate its global leadership role in the climate crisis to countries like China.

I don't want to see anything natural get hurt.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

The idea that China and India will just abandon climate action is not true, because they're doing it for more reasons than we are.

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we will no longer argue about the importance of wilderness protection, or over the question of saving endangered species, or how human communities must base their economic futures - not on short-term exploitation - but on long-term, sustainable development.

We need to be rid of the insane policy of environmentalism. No more 'green', anti-growth, anti-science environmental policy.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.

We need a race to the top so that we have policies and regulations that protect human rights, the environment and that reduce poverty.

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.