Lyall Watson Quotes

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

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

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you needed to plow or, later, bulldoze. We now have a new understanding of the interconnectedness of ecosystems and the need for bird flyways and why all species matter.

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

From a conservation issue alone, you'd have to say there are too many badgers. A bigger growth in the badger population is not good for the balance of conservation anyway.

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

We need to stand as a nation, a state, a community to protect wildlife and wild places for our children.

Steve worked tirelessly to promote conservation, wildlife, and the environment, and his work enabled the plight of endangered species to reach a whole new audience.

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

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

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

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