Dick Strawbridge Quotes

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

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

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

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Endangered species are our friends.

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.

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

I am very interested in nature.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

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

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

I love nature.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

The diversity of life is so stimulating for me.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Nature is perfect.

I believe in the protection of the environment that supports us all.

The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

I love all of the ecosystems - mountains, deserts, rainforests. They're beautiful, and nature has so many different flavors to it.

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