Ronald C. Marlenee Quotes

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

Extinction is forever!

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

People will be able to survive, of course, without honeycreepers and monk seals. But if the wolf spider is in trouble, we are in trouble, too.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

If the spotted owl can't adjust ... then screw it.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

In my life, I have dreamt of seeing the great herds of wild animals, jungles and rainforests full of birds and butterflies, but now I wonder if they will even exist for my children to see.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

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.

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.

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.

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

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.