Susanna Moore Quotes

We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.

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.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Extinction is forever!

For almost two centuries, American gray wolves, vilified in fact as well as fiction, were the victims of vicious government extermination programs. By the time the Endangered Species Act was passed in 1973, only a few hundred of these once-great predators were left in the lower 48 states.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

Since 1972, I've been going around making speeches on the Everglades.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

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

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Endangered species are our friends.

No more wolves, wilderness or welfare.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

If mountain gorillas are to survive and propagate, far more active conservation measures urgently need to be undertaken. The question remains, is it already too late?

A lot of animals are finding themselves in positions where their habitats are being destroyed.

The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.