Quotes About Conservation

The rhino is now more or less extinct, and it's not because of global warming or shrinking habitats. It's because of Beyonce's handbags.

We have taken the manatees out of the areas in the Caribbean and really elsewhere in the world, and this disruption to the system makes such systems vulnerable to changes as they come by, whether it's in terms of disease or terms or global warming for that matter.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

A few dozen changes to the genome of a modern elephant - to give it subcutaneous fat, woolly hair and sebaceous glands - might suffice to create a variation that is functionally similar to the mammoth. Returning this keystone species to the tundras could stave off some effects of warming.

We all need to find the simplest and easiest ways to help stop global warming.

Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.

Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our oceans are warming. As a result, we have more ocean acidification and coral bleaching. You can actually see it.

I recycle as much as I can but I'm not an eco warrior.

Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.

Think about how your jeans would look if you washed and dried them every single day. That's like our hair, and you can't change your hair as often as your pants, so cutting down on washing cuts down on long-term damage.

The world is surprisingly hard to destroy, whereas saving it can be done a bit at a time.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

During most all of human evolution, it was adaptive to conserve energy by being lazy as circumstances permitted. Energy was a vitally needed resourse and could not be wasted. Today this take-it-easy adaptation may lead us to watch tennis on television when we would be better off playing it. This can only aggravate the effects of excess nutrition. The average office worker would be much more healthy if he or she spent the day digging clams or harvesting fruit in scattered tall trees.

momentum lost by any collision or impact is equal to the opposite momentum gained.

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

A city should decide where it doesn't want to develop, saving at least some of the canyons and hillsides and wetlands from the bulldozer's blade.

I think it's important to watch out for our environment and to be careful.

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

In the case of the environment, there's no one to bail it out.

As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.

I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.

I have even begun to think that I am caring for Argentina and Chile perhaps more than Argentines and Chileans. I feel like I'm sort of a de facto citizen, because I am looking after their national patrimony - which is the land - very carefully.

The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.