Douglas Brinkley Quotes

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.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

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

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

The elephant can survive only if forests survive.

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.

I've already made a substantial commitment to wildlife by putting my land in the easement. It won't be developed. It will remain there in perpetuity - will be there for the wildlife.

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

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Biodiversity underpins life on earth. And if we don't look after this biodiversity, if we don't protect it, if we don't actually harness it in the right way, we are threatening our own livelihoods on this planet.

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.

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.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

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

Sumatra has these lush forests and huge, amazing creatures like elephants, orangutans, and tigers. They're disappearing because of industry coming in and cutting down the forests.

Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.

We have to understand in value what the services of nature are so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

The people that I represent in Illinois care passionately about protecting open space and safeguarding our nation's natural treasures, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives - and may even extend our stay on Earth.

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

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.