Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the web of life without tearing a hole in the very fabric of our earthly existence - and eventually falling through that hole ourselves.

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

I love nature.

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.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

The natural world is a source of inspiration.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

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

We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.

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

I'm very much an animal and nature person.

I appreciate nature as well and everything green.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

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

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

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