Tim Cahill Quotes

Tell them to go and see their own land—visit the National Parks…

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

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.

I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.

People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind.

Take nothing but pictures. Leave nothing but footprints. Kill nothing but time.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

I am travelling to different places and talking to people about travelling litter-free, observing the wildlife, and respecting the host.

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

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

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.

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.

From the time the kids were in upper grade school and middle school, we took trips over the Christmas break to nature-focused places, such as the Okefenokee Swamp and Cumberland Island in Georgia; Costa Rica; Maho Bay campground in St. John, Virgin Islands; the llanos of Venezuela; the southern coast and highlands of Belize.

If you introduce kids to fishing, they become good citizens.

My brother and I were brought up outdoors. We appreciate the countryside; we appreciate nature and everything about it.

I hope people understand there is a world outside our life in this bubble and hope we can appreciate it and preserve it.

The more people share woodland, absorb it and regard it as part of their personal heritage and culture, the richer our society will be. The more people can work in woods and use them practically rather than go through the motions as a kind of ersatz exercise, the more they will care for the places themselves rather than the political idea of them.

I can't tell people to love mountains. They have to find their own way.

I would say that in the 1990s, I don't think the environment was enough to make anyone ambitious and aspirational. It was a downer, I would think.

When I made the switch from strictly entertainment news to more of these natural world documentaries, it's really been all about wanting to make saving the world cool.

I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

I get these students who come in and say, I want to help people. I say, people get plenty of help. Why don't you help the planet?

I have grown up on a diet of sunrise picnics, learning the names of butterflies, planting trees.