Lydia Millet Quotes

I didn't know much about the Mexican gray wolf before January 2011, when we contributed a flight in our Pilatus PC12 to the effort to re-establish the wolf in the forests of Arizona and New Mexico.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

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

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

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.

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.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

It does seem like, in the world today, we've moved further and further away from wildlife. There's that sense of whatever you're scared of, you just want it to go away. Here in Australia Zoo, part of our ongoing plan is that re-connection.

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

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

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

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

No more wolves, wilderness or welfare.

Extinction is forever!

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Mississippians for the most part appreciate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management of our wildlife refuges and other natural resources.

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

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.

It takes a true encounter to realise that real animals, wild animals, have all but passed from our lives.

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

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.