Nolan Gould Quotes

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

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

We have to start listening to nature now.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

The real cure for our environmental problems is to understand that our job is to salvage Mother Nature. We are facing a formidable enemy in this field. It is the hunters... and to convince them to leave their guns on the wall is going to be very difficult.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

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.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

I used to love wildlife as a kid and being outside in the garden and the woods and the field and that stuff.

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.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

Cherish your wilderness.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

Whatever trips you make, you must still have nature in your eye.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas.

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

I think my father would give me the Department of the Interior because of my love of the outdoors, so we can get that going.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.