George Monbiot Quotes

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

The most important thing is to preserve the world we live in. Unless people understand and learn about our world, habitats, and animals, they won't understand that if we don't protect those habitats, we'll eventually destroy ourselves.

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

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.

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 Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

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

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

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

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.

We can halt the destruction of the world's rainforests - and even restore parts of them - in order to ensure that the forests do what they are so good at - in other words, storing carbon naturally.

If you want psychic gratification, one of the greatest ways is to know that you've made a real contribution to saving a species from blinking out during your lifetime.

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

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

I'm not an extreme tree-hugger. I do believe trees grow and are a useful agricultural product that can be harvested without damaging the ecology and wildlife.

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.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.

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.