Matthew Fox Quotes

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.

Yellowstone wildlife is treasured. We understand that. We'll manage them in a way that addresses that sensitivity.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Most Africans don't get to see these wild animals at all. Once they see and learn about them, they are much more likely to become involved in protecting the environment.

I love zoo sanctuaries.

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor.

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

My job, my mission, what I have been put on this planet for is to save wildlife.

People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain.

It does seem like, in the world today, we've moved further and further away from wildlife. There's that sense of whatever you're scared of, you just want it to go away. Here in Australia Zoo, part of our ongoing plan is that re-connection.

My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality.

To those who have always wondered how they might best serve the wider world, wildlife conservation is, at its core, one of the purest forms of giving.

Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

In my cosmology, indigenous wild deer are more important than exotic ornamental shrubs.

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

Adult gorillas will fight to the death defending their families. This is why poachers who may be seeking only one infant for the zoo trade must often kill all the adults in the family to capture the baby.

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

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.