If you want psychic gratification, one of the greatest ways is to know that you’ve made a real contribution to saving a species from blinking out during your lifetime. – Thomas Kaplan
To those who have always wondered how they might best serve the wider world, wildlife conservation is, at its core, one of the purest forms of giving. – Thomas Kaplan
Getting to the point where a cause goes from being a terribly daunting task with a handful of adherents to an acknowledged success with momentum and many allies is a rarity. – Thomas Kaplan
Whatever you are doing in life, you have to build a high-class vehicle to deliver your vision. – Thomas Kaplan
People need to look at wildlife conservation in its totality. As soon as you lose the apex predator, it has harmful consequences right down the food chain. – Thomas Kaplan
If the world does well, gold will be fine. If the world doesn’t do well, gold will also do fine… but a lot of other things could collapse. – Thomas Kaplan