Rhys Ifans Quotes

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.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Endangered species are our friends.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

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

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

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.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

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

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have produced man and his natural environment.

You think of the rainforest as this incredibly abundant place of fauna and animals and flora. This great, rich wilderness. And yet it is such a biological battlefield in which everything is competing.

The illegal wildlife trade has an unacceptable human cost for those who have lived for centuries in harmony with wildlife.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

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

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

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

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

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

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