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George Schaller Quotes:

George Schaller quotes

Ocupation: Biologist

Life: b. May 26, 1933

Birthday: May 26

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A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

Topics: Death, Ideas, Long, Impermanence, Transience

quote there are never victories in conservation if you want to save a species or a habitat george schaller Quotes

For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If this continues, it will be the end of living and the beginning of survival. The world is being totaled.

Topics: Jobs, Whales, Survival

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

Topics: Heart, World, Emotion, Best Science

A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.

Topics: Children, Animal, Ecosystems

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

Topics: Animal, World, Wells

My interest in wildlife began early and I don't know how early because it's the only thing I've ever been interested in. I've always had a certain curiosity, a certain wonder about the natural world. I like to be outdoors.

Topics: Nature, Curiosity, Wildlife

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

Topics: Fighting, Victory, Habitat

To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.

Topics: Memories, Rhythm Of Life, Imagination

Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual realm as well as in a physical one.

Topics: Intellectual, Mountain, Desert

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