Paul Watson Quotes

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.

Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of man is sheer nonsense.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

I think the environment is possibly our most worrying thing at the moment, so I think mountaintops are the place to live.

A functioning eco-system is a human need.

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in touch with nature more than science. ... Too few natural areas remain; both by intent and by indifference we have insulated ourselves from the wilderness that produced us.

O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Nature does require her times of preservation.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

Environmentalism is a way of seeing our place within the biosphere.

We must return to nature and nature's god.

It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it..

That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics..