E. O. Wilson Quotes

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

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

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.

Cherish your wilderness.

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many species to the brink of extinction...The American people that I interact with through my IS Foundation work do not want to allow this to happen; they do not want to let these species go without a fight; and they see the way in which nature provides for people around the world.

If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have to protect their habitat and everything that they hunt. And that means saving massive, thousands of acres for them to be able to roam and breed. So it's more of a land effort.

I believe in helping the planet survive, and that includes reaching out to help some of the disappearing creatures whose habitats we're destroying. It's up to us to somehow reverse that trend. I don't know how we'll achieve it, but we need to.

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.

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.

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

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

I also have an idea for a book on biodiversity, and why and how we should be conserving it.

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

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

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.

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

Economic desperation often drives wildlife destruction like poaching or illegal logging. But trade can help create powerful financial incentives for communities to preserve the biodiversity around them.

It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also a principle of humility; none of us can act alone.

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

The truth is that some of Mississippi's greatest advocates for conservation and habitat protection are the sportsmen and hunters. Our state's beautiful and abundant natural lands are enhanced, protected and paid for in large part by those who enjoy hunting.