Nicholas Kristof Quotes

I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

One of the things I enjoy is the challenge of Mother Nature.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.

As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Barring love and war, few enterprises are undertaken with such abandon, or by such diverse individuals, or with so paradoxical a mixture of appetite and altruism, as that group of avocations known as outdoor recreation. It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature. But wherein lies the goodness, and what can be done to encourage its pursuit?

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Where nature is concerned, familiarity breeds love and knowledge, not contempt.

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

I am trying to teach my children to feel a responsibility for their fellow human beings and a sense of connection with ... the world around them.

He that plants trees loves others besides himself.

We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit.

The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.

I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

The essence of community, its heart and soul, is the non-monetary exchange of value; things we do and share because we care for others, and for the good of the place.

You and David could both be right. Maybe human beings are programmed … to help one another, even to fall in love. But just because it's human nature doesn't make it bad, Tally. Besides, we had a whole city of pretties to choose from, and we chose each other."-Zane

Let the mountains talk, let the river run. Once more, and forever.