Galen Rowell Quotes

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

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

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us. Because the planet doesn't need to be saved. It doesn't care if all the squirrels, elephants, and trees die and there's just a couple of amoebas floating around at the poles.

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.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

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.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use 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.

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

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

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

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

The future will either be green or not at all.

We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.

Mother Nature is not sweet.