“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. You cannot buy spiritual values at a shopping mall. An old-growth forest, a clear river, the… — 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
