Frank Craighead Quotes

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.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

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

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

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

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

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Man's war against nature is a war against himself.

The environment is more than just nature. The environment is peoples needs.

Nature is nobody's ally.

When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

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

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

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

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

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.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species who are quite as interesting as we are but vulnerable to us because we are cleverer in more destructive ways.

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.

That's the thing about Mother Nature, she really doesn't care what economic bracket you're in.