Leonardo DiCaprio Quotes

Again and again we are confronted with the reality - some might say the problem - of sharing our space with other living things, be they dogs, trees, fish or penguins.

Endangered species are our friends.

Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.

Since I was a kid, I inherited my dad's love for animals and wildlife, even for the ones we had around the house in the French countryside, a 'smaller' kind of nature. Then, as I grew up, I looked more deeply into the African continent and its wildlife.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

Extinction is forever!

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

I am very interested in nature.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

I will be doing a film called Whispers, for Disney. It's about elephants, and doesn't have any people in it. It will be a live action film - I don't know how much I can say about it, since I still don't know too much about it.

I love nature.

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger.

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.