Aldo Leopold Quotes

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

I want viewers to see that everything is connected, even the little guys like pollinators and flowers.

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

I'm interested in raw land and trees and fresh air and rivers and lots of animals around them.

I'm very aware of modern countryside issues, such as rewilding: how, as science progresses, we begin to understand that a healthy ecosystem is multiform.

I'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Brazil has one of the greatest natural patrimonies in terms of biodiversity.

Endangered species are our friends.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.

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

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

That Indian swamp in the wilderness…

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

Like many New Mexicans, I enjoy spending time outdoors and understand how important New Mexico's natural beauty and resources are.

Our health depends on the health of the environment in which we live.

I will protect public lands.

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

The planet's forests are essential for life.

Nature is so phenomenal.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.