Environmentalist Quotes

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

A technical solution may be defined as one that requires a change only in the techniques of the natural sciences, demanding little or nothing in the way of change in human values or ideas of morality.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

You cannot do only one thing.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Wild animals are just as confused as people are now. You've got toxins in the water, oil, sewage, all sorts of things.

The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.

They took their meals together; and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other.

Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.

The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

The attention of a traveller, should be particularly turned, in the first place, to the various works of Nature, to mark the distinctions of the climates he may explore, and to offer such useful observations on the different productions as may occur.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.

My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.