Jeff Corwin Quotes

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.

I am really sobered by what's happening to ecosystems around our planet and to the wildlife that is to be found there.

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.

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.

Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

The number one issue that Ocean Mysteries has opened my eyes to is, no matter where you are, whether you're on a beach in Hawaii, you're diving in the Pacific, you're in a remote archipelago, or you're in the middle of nowhere - I am blown away and sobered and crushed, emotionally crushed, by the amount of marine debris, of garbage, that is now in our ocean.

I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.

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.

I'm a biologist. At my core, I'm a naturalist.

Running is my addiction. It's always present. I'm constantly thinking about my next run.

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.

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.

In my heart, ever since I [was] a little kid, I've been an explorer.

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.