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Orangutans look straight into your soul.
You've made your bed, now go bounce on it.
They were all famous and fantastic fellows.
I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.
If at first you don't succeed, have a cup of tea.
Orangutan babies are like human babies: helpless.
It is a good life, if you're doing what you like doing.
What drives me is that moment of discovery. I love the unknown.
In my heart, ever since I [was] a little kid, I've been an explorer.
If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature
Economy and environment are the same thing. That is the rule of nature.
We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.
What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.
I think the hardest part about my job is the best part of my job - the travel.
The challenge is that we live in a time where there's a lot of crap on television.
We know that when push comes to shove, [we can] drive ourselves to save our planet.
The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.
Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.
A man's reputation is the opinion people have of him; his character is what he really is.
I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.
We Shan't Save All We Would Like To, But We Shall Save A Great Deal More Than If We Had Never Tried.
I think a human animal is far more wild and unpredictable and dangerous and destructive than any other animal.
I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.
We are not far away from the point of no return when it comes to life on earth, and we have some radical choices to make.
Old gardeners never die; they just very slowly turn into the most magnificent compost. But what a marvellous, active brew it is!
My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.
I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.
We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.
The natural resources we've depended on, if the places where they exist are not stable, our own livelihood and our health is put at risk.
It's the sheer joy of seeing things grow and helping them to grow, even harvesting the stuff that you've grown yourself, no matter how old you are.
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
It's the best - combining the mediums of television, documentary, and books, to give you this transmedia experience for kids, for families, and for teachers.
TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.
But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.
I must stress, basically, the very fact that we do have orangutan rehabilitation means that we have failed to do what is really important, and that is rescue the wild orangutan in its habitat.
The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
Our health as a society, our robustness as a community, as a nation, as a people, is not only dependent upon fiscal stability, military might, political strength - it's also dependent on a healthy planet.
I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months.
You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home.
Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.
Think of your husband as a house. You are allowed to give him a fresh coat of paint and change out the furniture now and then. But if you're constantly trying to pour a new foundation or replace the roof, you're in serious trouble.
To be with another scientist and make a discovery and share that with a global audience, or working with bear biologists in Alaska, by helicopter - [it's] really what I've given my whole life to. And I get to do that just about every week.
Whether it's exploring the woods around where I grew up, or even today exploring the coastal habitats and environments where I live in New England, or in a remote wilderness we're featuring in one of my series - I love to be in the field and I love to explore.
Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed.
I'm really worried about what the world is going to be like when my daughters are young women, [when] they are young leaders or mothers or businesspeople - whatever they're going to be. I'm afraid they're going to have a less healthy and less biologically rich planet.
I have an optimism about what people are willing to do. The greatest force in the world today, believe it or not, are these countless groups of people in every country almost... that are doing things to protect their local environment and to try and protect the earth.
Not every woman is obsessed with shoes. But every woman is more obsessed with shoes than her husband is (although that's not too difficult to accomplish, since your husband has exactly two pairs--black shoes that are ten years old and barely broken in and sneakers that are so dirty they classify as a biohazard).
I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or been killed, and baits are laid waiting for those that should return. And in these tortured places, the devastation is brutal and total. And this is what greed looks like.