James Balog Quotes

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?

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

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

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

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

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

Everybody deserves a chance to be in nature.

I study nature, and I realize that no matter how much you learn, you can't top nature.

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

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.

We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.

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.

Natures' curriculum cannot be changed.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

Yes, the natural world is the first and primary Bible. We have not honored it, so how could we, or would we, know how to honor and properly use the second Bible, when it was written.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

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

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

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.

In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

If you sort of treat the environment in sort of this mechanical, industrial way that there's a disconnect between man and the environment, it's very easy to treat people that way.