Animal Conservation Quotes:

The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.

- Charles Darwin

source: Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.25, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Love, Life, Nature, Inspirational Animal, Animal Cruelty

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

- David Attenborough

topic: Animal, Thinking, People, Animal Conservation

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beauty, Space Race, Inspirational Animal

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

- Jim Fowler

topic: Nature, Thinking, Space, Open Spaces, Wildlife Conservation

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

- E. O. Wilson

topic: Nature, Animal, Pet, Wildlife And Nature, Wildlife Animals

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

- John James Audubon

topic: Nature, Children, Father, Inspirational Earth, Inspirational Environmental

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

- Steve Irwin

topic: Future, Believe, Wildlife, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Conservation

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

- Rachel Carson

source: Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Nature, Zoos, Ocean, Deep Ecology, Destruction Of Nature

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

- Martin Buber

topic: Eye, Animal, Pet, Wildlife Animals, Cat Dog

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

- George Eliot

source: George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

topic: Spiritual, Nature, True Friend, Inspirational Animal, Inspirational Dog

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

- John Muir

source: John Muir (2011). “My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Motivational, Wisdom, Nature, Talkative, Wild Animal

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Nature, Men, Land, Land Conservation, Wildlife Conservation

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

- Ansel Adams

source: "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

topic: Nature, Fighting, Government, Inspirational Environmental, Our Planet

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Peace, Soulmate, Honesty, Inhumanity, Indifference And Apathy

The Animals of the planet are in desperate peril and they are fully aware of this. No less than human beings are doing in all parts of the world, they are seeking sanctuary.

- Alice Walker

topic: Animal, World, Sanctuary, Wildlife Animals, Animal Love

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

- Aldo Leopold

topic: Long, Mountain, Enough, Land Conservation, Wildlife Conservation

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

- Martin Luther

topic: Nature, Tree, Earth Day, Natural Gifts, Greenery

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

- Dalai Lama

topic: Pain, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Killing Animals

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

- Stewart Udall

source: Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

topic: Nature, Men, Air, Sustainable Living, Wildlife Conservation

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Cat, Animal, Men, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Religious, Peace, Animal, Inspirational Animal, Kindness To Animals

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Nature, Children, Accountability, Moral Society, Wildlife Conservation

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

- Alice Walker

topic: Meaningful, Nature, Animal, Human Will, Animal Cruelty

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

- Jim Fowler

topic: Nature, Quality, Important, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Conservation

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

- Mollie Beattie

topic: Country, Nature, Conservation, Wildlife And Nature, Wildlife Conservation

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

- Dennis Cardoza

topic: Nature, Believe, Recovery, Wildlife Conservation, Animal Conservation

My belief is that what comes across on the television is a capture of my enthusiasm and my passion for wildlife.

- Steve Irwin

topic: Passion, Television, Enthusiasm, Wildlife Conservation, Enthusiasm Passion

Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

- Frank N. Ikard

topic: Morning, Children, Animal, Arbor Day, Canaries

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

- E. B. White

topic: Time, Nature, Fall, Man And Nature, Nature Of Man