John Burnside Quotes

For the most part we don’t have an immediate impact on the species that surrounds us. But we do have an immediate impact on their habitat which determines whether they survive on in some cases shift their ground.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

Logging is an industry driven solely by greed. It prospers with government support and subsidies, and it is accelerating its rate of destruction, so that Tasmania is now the largest hardwood chip exporter in the world.

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

A lot of animals are finding themselves in positions where their habitats are being destroyed.

If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

If I have my way, I'm going to dissolve the Forest Service. They're in the business of harvesting trees and they're not harvesting trees, so why have them anymore?

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Our dependence on the pollutants of this Earth have always, and will continue to have, far-reaching consequences to our eco-systems, bio systems, geosystems and our race's natural evolution.

The natural world is not indestructible.

We need to protect our wilderness areas and national parks. Everywhere you travel, you see blight, denuded mountains, logging. If people know what's going on, they'll become activists to safeguard those places.

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

I was so fanatical about trying to save wildlife... I was unable to accept that we couldn't solve this problem of thousands of years, of wherever humans operated, the environment deteriorated.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Every acre of forest should belong to the people.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

There is more old growth forest today in California today than there was in 1850. The Indians had destroyed most of them.