Pedro Calderon de la Barca Quotes

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

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

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

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

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

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

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

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.

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

Ecology should be object lessons that the world sees, that explains in a visceral, physical way, the attributes of God.

Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.

I like the outdoors and the natural world. Environmental issues.

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

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.

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

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

All true wealth is biological.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

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