Roger Tory Peterson Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

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

I work with nature, although in completely new terms.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

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.

The future will either be green or not at all.

Mother Nature is not sweet.

Unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it…. Only if we understand the beauty of nature will we love it, and only if we become alerted to learn about the planet's disease processes can we decide to live our lives with a proper sense of ecological responsibility.

Ecological policy rejects exploitative forms of economy and the unscrupulous plundering of natural resources and raw materials, as well as the destructive interventions into nature's ability to renew itself. We believe that the exploitation of nature as well as human beings must be stopped if we are to master this acute threat to life on earth.

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

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

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

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.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

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

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

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.