The 80 best phrases of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente is considered the most important Spanish environmentalist in recent times, pioneer in the defense of nature, and with his work he instilled a love for animals and for the planet.
With his numerous documentaries and his best known series entitled "The Man and the Earth", he made his message last through time, captivating especially children and young people. With this selection of the best reflections of him, we want to pay him the tribute he deserves.
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Famous phrases of Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente
We leave you the most important phrases of this famous nature lover.
1. Garbage not only in the form of old cars that pile up and pile up in cemeteries. Garbage not only in the form of plastic bags and those non-return containers that are going to fill Spain and the whole world.
In this sentence, de la Fuente expresses that everything that can harm nature is considered garbage.
2. I would like you to always, throughout your life, when faced with a situation that really requires your decision, to think that Currently the most important, the most basic, the most transcendental of man's decisions is the conservation of the nature.
The environment requires the full attention of human beings in order to exist.
3. We must all be growing that small army, that tomorrow will be considered a heroic army!, much more than those who fought with weapons in hand: the army of those who one fine day said that something had to be done to protect a Mother who does not complain, who has given us everything we have, and to whom we are killing…!
We must involve children and young people in environmental care, in order to have a future.
4. We can destroy the Cathedral of León or the Pyramids of Egypt whenever we want, everything is a matter of dynamite and rebuild them a matter of time; But when a single animal species disappears, we have lost it forever, because only God can create it.
When an animal life is lost we can no longer do anything.
5. What an opportunity, to start saying on television what needs to be said and to convince the people of this country that they are killing the best we have, which are the animals, which is the landscape, which is the integrity of the environment, which are the ecological laws!
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente had the opportunity to bring his ecological message to all Spaniards through television.
6. Our goal is to save nature.
The mission of this great environmentalist was always to help take care of nature.
7. Technological culture is forcing man to live in comfortable prisons, in immense labyrinths without horizons, made of cement, iron and glass.
Today's man lives surrounded by technology and in a concrete jungle, when they can enjoy everything wonderful that nature gives us.
8. Medicine attracted me immediately, because it was a strictly biological and anthropological career. He could study the mysteries of nature condensed in the human body.
Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente knew how to unite his two passions: love for nature and for the human being.
9. When a naturalist who dedicates his life to the study and protection of nature, he takes up the pen to preface a hunting encyclopedia, He necessarily has to ask himself a question: Is it fair for the zoologist, the protectionist, the friend of animals, to open the pages of a a book that, in a way that is as rigorous as it is attractive, describes the techniques of the persecution, harassment and death of creatures wild?
This phrase reflects that there should not be books that refer to the death of animals, but to how wonderful wildlife is.
10. I was alone for a day. The golden eagle had passed and not only had he given me one of his penetrating hunting flights, but he had been describing the most fantastic acrobatics in the company of his partner. The Eagle! The male and female hanging in the sky spent like five or ten minutes, who knows! I was captivated by his wings! I wanted to become a bird!
Nature must be kept as intact as possible, in order to enjoy its wonders.
11. In any case, I believe that the fusion of mental activity, especially imaginative activity, with direct experiences constitutes the basis for being able to not only to approach the understanding of natural reality, but also to be able to describe it and, therefore, make everyone a participant in our experience.
Living and feeling the natural allows us to know it more thoroughly and thus be able to make others appreciate it as well.
12. On the rare occasions when my efforts in defense of wild animals have exhausted me, It was enough for me to think that nature belongs to children to resume my battle for the conservation of nature. fauna.
Conserving nature provides future generations with a planet to live on.
13. Nature belongs to children.
Children and young people deserve to grow up in a world without pollution.
14. Without forgetting that our experiences are always counterbalanced by scientific knowledge. That is to say that we want at all times to create culture, to bring the man from the country or the city closer to some fragments of what makes existence possible; or in other words, bring a little nature home to everyone.
Love and respect for nature begins at home.
15. Neither as a naturalist nor as a biologist can I be a supporter of bullfighting.
For this environmentalist, bullfighting is a cruel and ruthless activity.
16. The wolf is the antithesis of cruelty or gratuitous evil. The wolf represents the highest expression among living beings of community cooperativism, monolithic fidelity, tenderness, protection of cubs and defense of the weak.
Wolves are a great example of how we should live and behave in society.
17. Together we will form an army defending wild animals. We will call ourselves 'Los Linces' in honor of the most beautiful and rare of our carnivores. We will be guardians of our fields and studious naturalists of our fauna.
Being environmentally conscious makes us better people.
18. Each plant, each animal, even each mining complex, each landscape, has its reason for being. They are not available to us by pure chance or whim, but it is part of ourselves. The man is not a UFO from a distant galaxy; the man is a poem woven with the mist of dawn, with the color of the flowers, with the song of the birds, with the howl of the wolf or the roar of the lion.
All living beings are created to live related and each one occupies its place.
19. Man must love and respect the Earth, as he loves and respects his own mother.
Man and nature are linked by a bond of love.
20. The wild childhood of the Burgos plateau asked my good babysitters in the moor to tell me a story of wolves, and with these stories I fell asleep, lulled by the safety of the house, sweet and comfortable.
Wolves were a fundamental part of his life.
21. The adventure of life, this biological process in which we are all immersed and in which perhaps, distracted by processes of the consumer society in which we live, due to delusional sequences of our politics, we do not attach too much importance. But it has all the importance, since, if we are living beings, for us, the most important thing should be the crossroads of life.
The life of any living being must be respected.
22. The many hours spent with a hawk on his fist, looking into his deep and mysterious eyes, admiring his lines of incomparable harmony and trying to dive into his psyche to gain their trust, they made me understand the greatness of Life and, above all, they allowed me to cling to what at that time was only a suspicion of my reckless curiosity intellectual.
Being in contact with the natural makes us grow as people.
23. It is as if our planet has not lost its wild spirit, it is as if the Earth still retains something from the distant Paleolithic and is alive, lush and pulsating.
Our planet was, is and will continue to be our beautiful home.
24. If we know or intuit where we come from, who we are, where we are going, what is our baggage and luggage of what we serve ourselves on that trip, we will be fish that will hardly bite the bait with which the fish hook.
Knowing our past allows us to know who we are.
25. Ours is the culture of things, of the perishable; from the car, from the refrigerator, from the house in the city and in the country and I don't know where else. To have everything that is needed in the present, without thinking about what this could mean for something that we have forgotten.
We have the habit of throwing away everything that we no longer want, with which we are harming the planet.
26. Human pressure is invading everything and our growth rate seems to indicate that the current panorama is but a slight prologue of what the human star will become in a couple of centuries.
Population growth increases more and more, which makes man invade more natural spaces.
27. It is my turn to say again not goodbye, but see you later. I think that in life you can never say goodbye, because we are part of a universe that rebuilds itself... We are links in a long chain whose origin is lost in the mists of time and whose end has yet to be forged.
We are ephemeral in a wonderful world.
28. We already know with great clarity what are the processes that take place in terrestrial ecosystems and it would even be possible to copy these processes so that humanity itself could carry them out.
Learning about ecosystems will help us to live better with them.
29. Only the love of nature, the passion for life and the certainty that we are part of a total community that goes from the smallest bacteria to mankind will give us strength to defend the only home we have, a small planet lost in a remote galaxy that we have come to call Earth.
All living beings are together on this beautiful planet for which we must fight.
30. Access, development and promotion of the clean energies of the future must be ensured, that is, solar energy, wind energy, geothermal energy and energy produced by the tides.
Including eco-friendly practices in our lives allows us to ensure a pollution-free future.
31. I am deeply convinced that, if the new generations do not face the enormous problems of the conservation of the environment with a new, thriving and passionate philosophy, our world will continue its hopeless race of degradation and agony.
Children and young people must assume their responsibility to seek alternatives that help the Earth to continue standing.
32. It is ironic that the most glorious creature that populates our world, the one that treasures in its cerebral convolutions the most powerful and successful machine that has produced evolution, is precisely the cause of the threat, the harassment, the relentless persecution of life, even if such persecution implies its own death.
The human being is the main responsible for the environmental deterioration that our planet faces.
33. It is necessary that through the powerful means available to modern society we make a desperate and permanent call.
The media are a great tool that man has to help nature.
34. We want at all times to create culture, to bring to man some bits and pieces of what makes existence possible; in other words, bring a little nature home to everyone.
Including nature in our spaces helps us to have an ecological conscience.
35. Without forgetting that our experiences are always counterbalanced by scientific knowledge.
Ecologists help us understand and understand how wonderful and important nature is.
36. Humanity does not have to invent anything new. All it has to do is function according to the same parameters as the biosphere, that great community of living beings in which we are integrated.
Humanity, with its great inventions, has not been able to integrate nature into their lives.
37. The golden eagle... I was captivated by his wings! I wanted to become a bird!
Birds are beautiful animals that must be cared for.
38. What if humanity ended up in a true matriarchy? What if to end those tremendous specializations (which seem to only occur in the male human: war, political conflict, domination) we went to a world dominated by women? Is there, dear doctor, some model to copy?
The role of women in the world is fundamental.
39. I believe that until the time of total recycling has been reached, until we have reached the moment when humanity has elements, devices perfectly harmonic capable of degrading garbage and reincorporating it to the terrestrial environment, enriching with this garbage, the ecosystem that nourishes us and that we supports.
Recycling is a great alternative to reduce environmental pollution.
40. Bringing a little nature home to everyone benefits us.
Being in contact with nature brings endless benefits for physical and mental health.
41. It would not have anything in particular that humanity, in a remote future, could evolve into a model of an anthill, a hive, which, by the way, are always led by a female. Thus he took the iron out of the question of whether or not a woman could rule a country.
Living in harmony and in community allows us to be more empathetic.
42. It was enough for me to think that nature belongs to the little ones in the house and thus be able to reestablish my on-going battle in favor of wildlife conservation.
Animals deserve our full attention and protection.
43. Man is the engine of nature.
The planet depends on the actions of man for its conservation.
44. Isn't it a nice place to die?
This sentence collects the last words spoken by de la Fuente before he died.
45. Poor partridge, it is a true miracle that we can still give ourselves the pleasure of hearing her sing pinada on the cliff, in the heap or on the landmark stone of our payments. Everything is against her.
Animals are in danger from the destructive behavior of man.
46. The persecution, harassment and death of the piece have always demanded physical effort and mental acuity from the hunter.
The death of an animal is a cowardly and heinous act.
47. Don't kill, hunt. Why is killing not the same as hunting?
Only hunt when you really need to feed.
48. It is not fair that treaties are written on the persecution, harassment and death of wild creatures.
Books should not be written explaining techniques for killing a defenseless creature.
49. The predator is not only the guardian of the pastures and fruits, by preventing the excessive proliferation of phytophages, but also acts as a true forger, as a formidable selecting force that relentlessly improves the anatomical, physiological, and psychic conditions of all its dams.
The predator only hunts for its food needs.
50. The stalking, the persecution and the death of the animal is an inhuman act.
When you kill an animal just for pleasure, you are committing an act of cowardice.
51. It is not the quantity of catches that shapes and ennobles the hunter, but their quality.
If the hunter bases his hunting on the survival of his family, the animal has given his life for a just cause.
52. A single piece that requires an entire afternoon of chasing, a painful wait challenging the wind or a laborious calculation of strategy hunting, will represent higher conquest and more profitable dedication than a hundred unhappy animals shot down comfortably and without fatigue.
The hunter who chases his prey without compassion does not deserve to be called a man.
53. There is nothing more beautiful than seeing the beautiful stars from a Spanish plateau.
Spain is a beautiful country full of beautiful landscapes.
54. Human pressure is invading everything and our growth rate seems to indicate that the current panorama is but a slight prologue of what the human star will become in a couple of centuries.
Man has occupied spaces typical of nature.
55. Learning how ecosystems work will help humanity.
Nature has a lot to teach us.
56. Man must protect nature like any loved one.
We must see nature as part of ourselves.
57. It is ironic that the most glorious creature that populates our world, the one that treasures in its cerebral convolutions the most powerful and successful machine that has produced evolution, is precisely the cause of the threat, the harassment, the relentless persecution of life, even if such persecution implies its own death.
The human being is responsible for so much cruelty done to the environment.
58. When a single animal species disappears, we have lost it forever.
The life of an animal cannot be replaced.
59. Nothing is more overwhelming, nor more beautiful, in the starry high night, in the night of the Castile moor, than the distant howl of the wolf.
Wolves have always been associated with nature.
60. Nature is our mother.
We must protect the planet as a mother protects her children.
61. Every living thing is in the world for a reason.
We all have a purpose in life.
62. The national holiday is the highest exaltation of human aggressiveness.
This refers to the bullfighting festivals.
63. Man will end when the vital balance of the planet that supports him is over.
Without a planet there is no life.
64. Although there may be an abysmal distance between animals and man, it is clear that there is a profound similarity.
Man and animals are always united.
65. It is amazing that there is an audience that enjoys and feels pleasure watching a man kill an animal in the bullring.
The death of a bull is a very sad sight to watch.
66. Nothing is more overwhelming, nor more beautiful, in the starry high night, in the night of the Castile moor, than the distant howl of the wolf.
De la Fuente highlights the wonders of Spanish nature.
67. The hail that atollasca, the storm that folds the lands and drags the nests, the thunder that lists the broods, the black shotguns that do not know a ban, the herbicides and the harvesters, are, today, the worst enemies of the partridge.
Birds have many enemies that can contribute to their destruction.
68. Those who have been most successful are the oldest animals on the planet: the matriarchies of bees, termites, and ants.
Organized communities are the ones that get ahead in the face of any difficulty.
69. If women were able to bring their deep sense of peace, harmony and sweetness to this world, I would really be aiming for matriarchy.
The female figure is of great importance in all areas.
70. Carnivores kill because they do not know how to feed otherwise; they kill because they need it to live.
Man is a rational being who does not need to kill to feed himself.
