Conservation Status Quotes

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

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

All of the great whales are endangered.

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.

I discovered that close to half the planet is 'pristine.' We live in towns such as London, Paris or Sao Paulo and have the impression that all the pristine areas are gone, but they are not.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

Conservation is now a dead word.

Wilderness is rapidly becoming one of those aspects of the American dream which is more of the past than of the present. Wilderness is not only a condition of nature, but a state of mind and mood and heart. It cannot be confined to the museum-case status—seen only as a passing diorama from superlative throughways.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

I've often felt that the Indian tiger has not been unleashed.

We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.

Only two percent of the ocean is fully protected right now.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

I might be an endangered species.