Vaclav Smil Quotes

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.

I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

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

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The great task for environmental historians is to record and analyze the effects of man's recently achieved control over the natural world. What is needed is a longer-term global, comparative, historical perspective that treats the environment as a meaningful variable.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

As a kid, I was going to be a marine biologist or an actor. When I became successful as an actor, I said, 'Well, maybe I can lend a voice to this with an equal passion.' You realize how lucky we are and how destructive we've been and what little regard we have for the natural world.

I'm a science guy. I'm a geek. I love geology and botany and marine science. I thought maybe I'd be a professional guide, or maybe even a park ranger, working for the Department of Fish and Game.

I am very interested in nature.

Nature is so phenomenal.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

So it is that one side effect of the HD revolution has been the gratifying and edifying return of the nature documentary - films about the hugely varied forms of life that eat, sleep, stalk, mate, fight, thrive, suffer and struggle on our dear and embattled old Earth.

Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.