6 Quotes by David Baron

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be.... The only sensible way forward lies in a melding of the two philosophies. If nature has grown artificial, then restoring wilderness requires human intervention. We must manage nature in order to leave it alone.

We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are,

The more I got into it, the more these themes resonated with business people,

This is like saying we need to have a stricter speed limit, but for now everyone can go faster. It makes no sense to allow pollution to increase when you're saying you need stronger protection.

The medical community has lost some of our credibility in the past when we've made claims that we really didn't have the data to make and used them as quasi-scare tactics. I can remember during my medical education, people saying, 'Well, they don't really help you bulk up,' and that was total nonsense and every athlete knew that.

The lions are discovering they can make a pretty good living on the fringes of suburbia.