Martin Lewis Perl Quotes

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.

I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.

I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As opposed to the anthropocentric point of view, where everything revolves around humanity.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.

Nature nurtures our souls and lifts our spirits. But it also sustains us and our economy - and it is for this reason that we take it for granted at our peril.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.

I see a future in which nature gives us a helping hand. Instead of destroying the natural world, why can't we use it to solve the kinds of problems that we are facing?

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

Fortunately, nature is as generous with its problems as Nobel with his fortune. The more we know, the more aware we are of what we know not.

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.

I adore water, so it would be a real adventure to visit the Amazon before they chop down all the trees.