Roger Tory Peterson Quotes

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

I'm a big believer in our connection to nature.

To be a naturalist is better than to be a king.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. That's what natural history programmes should be for.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.

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.

I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.

We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature. We call it 'wilderness,' and we think it is progress to get further and further away from it. How crazy! Where would we have been if Nature had not built us up?

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

It was Rachel Carson's famous book 'Silent Spring' that got me involved with the environment. I read it in The New Yorker, in installments. Up to then, I'd thought the main job to do is help the meek inherit the Earth. And I still, that's a job that's got to be done. But I realized if we didn't do something soon, what the meek would inherit would be a pretty poisonous place to live.

We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.

The most patriotic thing you can do is to take care of the environment and try to live sustainably.

I have been fighting climate change and working to improve our environment.

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

Our land-healing ministry really is about cultivating relationships: between the people, the loving stewards, and the ecology of a place, what I call the environmental umbilical that we're nurturing here.

I love nature.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.

For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.