Dia Mirza Quotes

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.

Children are still in love with the wonders of nature, and I am, too. So I write them stories in hopes that they will want to protect all the beautiful creatures and places.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

Our Earth is talking to us, and we must listen to it and decipher its message if we want to survive.

I worry that more and more kids my age are growing up without experiencing the outdoors, which means that fewer will care about the natural world.

I learned from my parents to revere nature. Their way of teaching my siblings and I to respect the environment was to be in it, and so we spent a great deal of time outdoors.

Steve worked tirelessly to promote conservation, wildlife, and the environment, and his work enabled the plight of endangered species to reach a whole new audience.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

We have to start listening to nature now.

Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don't need a diploma to plant a tree.

'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

I say I am a Planetwalker. Then I have to explain that a Planetwalker is anyone who walks the planet as a lifestyle choice, as part of an education in the spirit and hope of using the journey to benefit the world.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

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.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.

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.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.