Baba Dioum Quotes

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

You only protect what you love, and you only love what you know.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.

When you talk to the public about the environment it goes in one ear and out the other. They are only interested in the now.

All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts... The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

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

I love nature.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.

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.