Wildlife Quotes - Page 2

• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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• Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior.

  Steve Irwin

  Future, Warrior, Born

  Radio interview on Radio Alice (KLLC 97.3),

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?

  Steve Irwin

  People, Environment, Cherish

  Steve Irwin, Terri Irwin (2002). “The Crocodile Hunter: The Incredible Life and Adventures of Steve and Terri Irwin”, p.220, Penguin

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• If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

  Francis of Assisi

  Religious, Peace, Men

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• I think I'm very easily inspired. People, wildlife, nature, music, art. I think that I'm lucky that I have this great sense of wonderment about life in general.

  Jorja Fox

  Art, Thinking, People

  "CSI Actress Jorja Fox: On Finding Balance". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

  Alice Walker

  Meaningful, Nature, Men

  "The Dreaded Comparison: Animal Slavery and Human Slavery". Book by Marjorie Spiegel, Foreword, 1996.

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• The real wealth of the Nation lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife.

  Rachel Carson

  Real, Lying, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.99, Beacon Press

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• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Jobs, Ocean, Rivers

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Zoos, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

  Jane Goodall

  Would Be, Generations, Useless

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

  John Denver

  Believe, Blood, Dry

  Song: The Eagle and the Hawk, Album: Aerie, 1972

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• The world of life, of spontaneity, the world of dawn and sunset and starlight, the world of soil and sunshine, of meadow and woodland, of hickory and oak and maple and hemlock and pineland forests, of wildlife dwelling around us, of the river and its wellbeing--all of this [is] the integral community in which we live.

  Thomas Berry

  Nature, Sunset, Sunshine

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• If we could just stop building up armies and things like that, we would have all the money we need for wildlife and poverty.

  Jane Goodall

  Army, Building Up, Needs

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 1, 2010.

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• Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Country, Ocean, Lakes

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• I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

  Bindi Irwin

  Nature, Stars, Awkward

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• Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.

  Terri Irwin

  Fighting, Warrior, Killing

  Terri Irwin (2012). “My Steve”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

  Murray Banks

  Animal, Pet, Needs

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• I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

  Steve Irwin

  Thinking, Environmental, Gone

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• If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

  Albert Einstein

  Zoos, Cat, Animal

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• Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

  Zoe Helene

  Struggle, Home, Expansion

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• There's no space for wildlife; the humans are crowding them out.

  Patrick Bergin

  Space, Humans

  "African Wildlife Foundation, Veronica Varekova and Patrick Bergin". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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