Ian Somerhalder Quotes

In real life, I am trying to save the Steve Irwin wildlife preserve. It's in Australia, up on Cape York, and it's in danger of being strip-mined.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

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 elephant can survive only if forests survive.

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.

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

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

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

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

We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument we can make is to show we mean it, by restoring our own lost wonders.

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

I want my children and my grandchildren to live in a world with clean air, pure drinking water, and an abundance of wildlife, so I've chosen to dedicate my life to wildlife conservation so I can make the world just a little bit better.

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

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.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

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.

We owe it to each other - and to our children and grandchildren - to leave our planet in a better state than when we found it.

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.

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.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.