#conservation quote

[louk419]

Celebrating Earth Day 2025 🌍 with words of wisdom from conservationist Dr Mikhail Astrov as he reminds us that it's within our power to create positive change for this planet we call home.

[godzilla-reads]

Yet at some point, things came to a head and we went our separate ways. Just as Cain killed Abel, and pioneering farmers put an end to the ways of nomadic shepherds, humans and bears, two beings cut from the same cloth, set about tearing each other apart. Humans emerged as the victors from this fratricidal battle with bears. But by destroying bears’ habitats, by hunting them intensively, we humans have been the authors of our own misfortune, distancing ourselves from nature. Perhaps there’s a lesson for us here. Let’s not forget, in both the Bible and the Qur’an, Cain is cursed and his descendants perish in the deluge. Look out: the floodwaters are quickly rising.

—Introduction from On Being a Bear: Face to Face with our Wild Sibling by Rémy Marion (trans. David Warriner)

[natureisthegreatestartist]

[natureisthegreatestartist]

You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you will exterminate the species as surely as if you had shot it. So conservation means that you have to preserve forest and grassland, river and lake, even the sea itself. This is not only vital for the preservation of animal life generally, but for the future existence of man himself -- a point that seems to escape many people.

Conservationist Gerald Durrell (1925-1995)

[natureisthegreatestartist]

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.

Environmentalist Rachel Carson

[natureisthegreatestartist]

[fragilebeautyphoto]

" Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed...We simply need that wild country available to us, even if we never do more than drive to its edge and look in. "

- Wallace Stegner