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… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
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.… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
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… — George Schaller Copy Share
A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power,… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
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… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“I find it very worrying that we don’t talk about nature anymore. We talk about natural resources as if everything had a price tag.… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
For what are the whales being killed? For a few hundred jobs and products that are not needed, since there are cheap substitutes. If… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Mountains and deserts, with their sparse life at the limit of existence, make one restless and disconsolate; one becomes an explorer in an intellectual… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
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… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“I learned long ago that conservation has no victories, that one must retain connections and remain involved with animals and places that have captured… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
