National Wildlife Day Quotes 2021: 10 Sayings, Photos To Celebrate Nature

National Wildlife Day is marked annually on Sept. 4 to raise awareness about forest-dwelling plants and animal species.

The day was founded in 2005 by animal behaviorist and philanthropist Colleen Paige, according to the official website.

The main aim of this day is to educate people about the need to preserve and rescue endangered animals in the United States and across the globe.

African buffalos rest in the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy AFP / Tony KARUMBA

Here are some quotes, courtesy Good Reads, to celebrate wildlife:

1. "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." – Frank Lloyd Wright

2. "The hope of the future lies not in curbing the influence of human occupancy – it is already too late for that – but in creating a better understanding of the extent of that influence and a new ethic for its governance." – Aldo Leopold

3. "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." – Rachel Carson

Pangolin Save Vietnam's Wildlife — In June, the Chinese government removed pangolin scales from an official listing of ingredients approved for use in medicine as part of an effort to stop the trade of the world’s most trafficked wild mammal. In 2019, at least 400,000 pangolins were killed for their scales and meat. MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images

4. "We need to understand ourselves as biological creatures at one with the diverse of all life. When we can truly see this unity and interdependence, we will find nature to be forgiving, generous and resilient." – Kenny Ausubel

5. "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." – Albert Einstein

A snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan. As few as 4,000 of the big cats could be left in the high mountains of Asia according to the World Wildlife Fund — A snow leopard in Kyrgyzstan. AFP / Vyacheslav OSELEDKO

6. "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." – Elwin Brooks White

7. "If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love." – Steve Irwin

Sandwiched between the vast grasslands of the Sahel and the forests of the Ethiopian highlands, the park boasts a variety of habitats that have made it a haven for wildlife — Sandwiched between the vast grasslands of the Sahel and the forests of the Ethiopian highlands, Sudan's Dinder National Park boasts a variety of habitats that have made it a haven for wildlife. AFP / ABDULMONAM EASSA

8. "If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place." – Terri Irwin

9. "It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it." – Wendell Berry

10. "Wild animals are less wild and more human than many humans of this world." – Munia Khan