Aldo Leopold Quotes

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

From global warming to fish and wildlife, we've seen that the Bush administration has little regard for scientific findings that don't support its predetermined policies.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

The only reason that people will preserve anything in nature is if money can be made off of it.

… work [jobs] and the environment should not be played off against each other.

If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.

This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other.

We're saying environmental stewardship and jobs in the economy. We can do both together.

Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

I love creating hideaways. My idea is to go to the most beautiful, unspoilt places, buy the land, and make sure it is never damaged. I've always admired John D. Rockefeller, who bought up tracts of land to ensure they were left wild in perpetuity.

This notion that we cannot be about jobs and stewardship of the environment is just simply not right. We've always done that well as a country. We haven't had to choose.

We should not have to choose between supporting jobs and supporting the environment.

I do think that climate change is real. And I think that it's something that we have to deal with. But I also think it has to be a balance. And, you know, as governor of South Carolina, that was what I did.

Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

I have spent time in many of the world's popular wilderness locations and I would say Nepal should be proud. It is an example of man repairing the damage he has done.

If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.

Mississippians for the most part appreciate U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service management of our wildlife refuges and other natural resources.

In Africa, animals and the natural landscape allow local communities to support themselves, as there is a constant source of money from tourism.

My first exhibition oriented towards raising awareness was in 2008 in Paris. That was the first time I felt like I actually did something related to wildlife protection, and ever since that time, I haven't stopped.

We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children.