Wildlife Quotes - Page 9

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

Rebecca Solnit

Home, Survival, Habitat

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There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Country, Ideas, People

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1934, Volume 3”, p.359, Best Books on

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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Laurence J. Peter

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Forests and trees make significant direct contributions to the nutrition of poor households ... [as] rural communities in Central Africa obtained a critical portion of protein and fat in their diets through hunting wildlife from in and around forests. The five to six million tonnes of bushmeat eaten yearly in the Congo Basin is roughly equal to the total amount of beef produced annually in Brazil - without the accompanying need to clear huge swathes of forest for cattle.

Frances Ford Seymour

Science, Hunting, Community

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The plants we've chosen will collect and cycle Earth's minerals, water, and air; shade the soil and renew it with leafy mulch; and yield fruits and greens for people and wildlife.

Toby Hemenway

Garden, Yield, Air

Toby Hemenway (2009). “Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-scale Permaculture”, p.175, Chelsea Green Publishing

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As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.

Ron Kind

Home, Rivers, Long

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I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

Jim Ramstad

Oil, Finals, Way

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I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Dennis Cardoza

Nature, Believe, Recovery

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I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

Nigel Dennis

Dream, Example, Photograph

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For example, in my district there are visitors from all over the world who are drawn to our beautiful beaches, recreational lakes, habitat wildlife preserves and golf courses.

Mark Foley

Beautiful, Beach, Golf

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Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

Bob Ney

Jobs, Oil, United States

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By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

E. F. Schumacher

Spiritual, Mean, Tree

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Remember that even just watching animals has an impact. Intrusion into their living space can expose them to predation, keep them from feeding or other essential activities, or cause them to leave their young exposed to predation or the elements. No photo or viewing opportunity is worth harassing or stressing wildlife. In appreciating and watching them, we have a responsibility to protect and preserve the animals that share our state.

Mary Taylor

Stress, Responsibility, Opportunity

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President Obama believes that we have a moral obligation to the next generation to leave our land, water, and wildlife better than we found it.

Sally Jewell

Believe, Land, Water

"Secretary Jewell Offers Vision for Conservation, Balanced Development, Youth Engagement in National Press Club Speech", www.doi.gov. October 31, 2013.

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You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

Terri Irwin

Environmental

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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed hair, and Norton tosses his lovely, glossy hair back, and she tosses her hair in return, and he tosses his, and she tosses hers, and it;s like some mating ritual on a wildlife program.

David Nicholls

Hair, Laughing, Lovely

David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.363, Villard

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A Panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots into the air. "Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes toward the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife annual and tosses it over his shoulder. "I'm a Panda," he says, at the door. "Look it up." The waiter turns to the relevant entry, and, sure enough, finds an explanation. Panda. Large black and white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.

Lynne Truss

Confused, Black And White, Gun

"Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people. They nourish and refresh us and provide a home for dazzling varieties of fish and wildlife and trees and plants of every sort. We are a nation rich in rivers.

Charles Kuralt

Running, Home, Memorable

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Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Gale Norton

Hunting, America, Dating

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The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.

Doug Peacock

Land, Abiding, Aliens

Doug Peacock (2011). “Grizzly Years: In Search of the American Wilderness”, p.185, Macmillan

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The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

Doug Peacock

Thinking, Animal, Temptation

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You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.

Roscoe Bartlett

Oil, America, Matter

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And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

Sigurd F. Olson

Good Life, Elude Us, Water

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Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Rachel Carson

Conservation, Resources, Protect

Rachel Carson (1948). “Guarding Our Wildlife Resources”

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A profession is a body of men who voluntarily measure their work by a higher standard than their clients demand. To be professionally acceptable, a policy must be sound as well as salable. Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.

Aldo Leopold

Men, Clients, Sound

Aldo Leopold (1992). “The River of the Mother of God: and other Essays by Aldo Leopold”, p.246, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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