A country is known by the way it treats its animals.
Jawaharlal Nehru
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.
Gerald Durrell
Almost all these hot spots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
Jim Fowler
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
Steve Irwin
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall
A tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated - as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support - India will be the poorer by having lost the finest of her fauna.
Jim Corbett
Butterflies, they are like dream flowers, childhood dreams, which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine. Air and angels.
Miriam Rothschild
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues ñ self-restraint.
Edwin Way Teale
For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
Rachel Carson
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish piecemeal.
Thomas Jefferson
If we go on as we are, we will destroy in the next century everything that the poets have been singing about for the past two thousand years.
Fred Bodsworth