Anote Tong Quotes

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

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.

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

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

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

The forests shall not be burned needlessly.

To protect the natural environment is to protect the possibilities for youth.

To protect the environment, you have to work from the outside, not the inside.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.

It is not enough to celebrate the earth and all its inhabitants, we must restore what we have destroyed.

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.

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

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.