Clive Anderson Quotes

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

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

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

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

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

We can see the weather change, that the birds don't come to the city anymore... we seriously have to think about preserving nature.

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they could repopulate a thriving world.

We need wilderness preserved-as much of it as is still left, and as many kinds-because it was the challenge against which our character as a people was formed.

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

Nature is under control but not disturbed.

There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them.

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

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

This is a truth that should be repeated like a mantra: to have any chance of a ful - filling life, we require not only clean air and a steady climate, but also an abundance of meadows and woodlands, rivers and oceans, teeming with life and the mass existence of other living creatures.

A proper respect for nature means that you can't pollute the air, poison the rivers and chop down the forests indiscriminately without suffering greatly.

All true wealth is biological.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

If a man farms his land to the waste of the soil or the tress, he destroys not only his own assets but Nature's assets.