George W. Bush Quotes

The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.

Maybe it's because I look into the future professionally, but I see great possibilities for both humanity and our planet. I don't believe the thriving of one has to come at the expense of the other, and I'm deeply concerned to find out whether other people do think that.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.

The organization and the environment are in concert.

The lakes in Washington State give us tons of crawfish.

Chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans have been living for hundreds of thousands of years in their forest, living fantastic lives, never overpopulating, never destroying the forest. I would say that they have been in a way more successful than us as far as being in harmony with the environment.

Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.

Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the earth, rather than touching the earth, touching ground.

The big problem of our modern society is that we feel that we are separated from the nature. But it's just the opposite. We are interrelated and our DNA is the same. And only when human beings understand that, the nature will not be obstacle.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

If the spotted owl can't adjust ... then screw it.

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.

We do not wish, we do not need to expel the Arabs and take their place. All our aspirations are built upon the assumption — proven throughout all our activity in the Land — that there is enough room in the country for ourselves and the Arabs.

Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

We can save ourselves, but only if we let go of the myth of dominance and mastery and learn to work with nature.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

The voice of the natural world would be, "Could you please give us space and leave us alone to get along with our own lives and our own ways, because we actually know much better how to do it then when you start interfering."

Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity.