Cheryl Strayed Quotes

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

It is impossible to teach people to conserve nature if they don't learn to love nature.

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our lives to.

Since 1972, Ive been going around making speeches on the Everglades. No matter how poor my eyes are, I can still talk. Ill talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat. Whoever wants me to talk, Ill come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

The Earth is our environment to protect and the garden to tend to.

God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.” Smiling, he returned to his chair. "I know. You kept telling me that while I was carrying you. You were very upset.” "You...you carried me here?” "After we broke the bench apart and freed your foot.” Man. I'd missed out on a lot. The only thing better than imagining Dimitri carrying me in his arms was imagining him shirtless while carrying me in his arms.

I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.

I feel that our planet is in peril and that creating a sustainable planet for my children and my children's children is the most important thing I can do in this lifetime.

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.

Nature has been taken over by thugs who care absolutely nothing about it. We need to take nature back.

Edgar Wayburn has worked to preserve the most breath-taking examples of the American landscape. In fact, over the course of more than a half-century, both as President of the Sierra Club and as a private citizen, he has saved more of our wilderness than any person alive.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.