Marjory Stoneman Douglas Quotes

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

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

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

I've been making pieces dealing with environmental issues at least since 2004; I mean, I did stuff for the Sierra Club and the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge even back in the 1990s. But somewhere a little after 2004, Hummer hits me up. I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions due to people's choice. We are responsible for our choices and the only ones capable of changing our future.

As United Nations patron of the wilderness, one of my roles is to report back from the Earth's remaining wildernesses and to act as a voice for the wild.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.

I'll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

Fundamentally, if you look at where the environmental issues are coming from, it's all because of humans and our impact on the environment, so while it's true that one individual is not going to sufficiently fix the environment, it is a necessary thing.

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.

The survival of extraordinary creatures such as the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish - the largest in the world - is in doubt because of logging.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

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.

These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

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