Richard Dawkins Quotes

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

I'm such an advocate for animal rights and environmental rights.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

I'd say that animal rights and environmental issues have always been at the forefront of my mind.

In the years after the expedition to Chad, I started the Honnold Foundation, a small nonprofit that was my attempt to do something positive in the world. I sought out projects that both helped the environment and improved peoples' standards of living. The more I researched, the more I gravitated toward solar.

The Amazon is not just a set of trees. It is a set of 25 million people. If we don't create real economic opportunities for them, the practical result is to encourage disorganized economic activities that results in the further destruction of the rain forest.

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

It's about keeping animals in our environment. They can't be on somebody's purse or shoes or something.

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

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.

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.

Endangered species are our friends.