Beatrix of the Netherlands Quotes

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

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

I realize the answer is not to create wilderness and walk away.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

Rainforest land is mistakenly valued solely for the worth of its timber, mining and oil resources by short-sighted corporations and governments.

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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

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

Conservation’s grand challenge is to save nature in a world that will soon have 9 billion hungry, thirsty, energy-using people.

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

Nature is a beautiful thing - it does what it needs to do when it needs to do it.

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

To be in the woods is a special thing. And also just the concept of wilderness as a necessary opposite in a kind of global dialectic. I want there to be wilderness where there are no humans in a world like this. So nature is super important.

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.

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.

You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.

We're adding a billion people every decade. We're just spin doctors. Whatever we do is supposedly great, and yet it's always at the expense of diversity and nature. We're like elephants. The ecology of the elephant is more similar to human than any other.