Quotes About Conservation

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed

Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.53

Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

Mas no espírito, há lugar para todas as oposições; mesmo o que nunca triunfa, na realidade, conserva um dinamismo eficaz, e são precisamente os sonhos que nao se podem efectivar os que se mostram mais invencíveis.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

The truth is that we will never save wildlife by killing it.

Malcolm said, "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

People aren't studying the natural world any more, they're mining it.

People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity-our most necessary resourse?

If there's anything worse than a limousine liberal," Morton said, "it's a Gulfstream environmentalist.

Save the Earth" and beneath that, "There's Nowhere Else to Go.

In the modern world, it's a much more serious transgression to shoot a tiger than to shoot your parents. Tigers have advocates.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

This disaster was caused by environmentalists charged with protecting the wilderness, who made one dreadful mistake after another—and, along the way, proved how little they understood the environment they intended to protect.

En el mundo moderno se considera más grave matar a un tigre que a tus padres. Los tigres tienen abogados.

we need, and now more than ever, to learn how to use nature without damaging it.

In wildness is the preservation of the world," Thoreau once wrote; a century later

All told, growing food organically uses about a third less fossil fuel than growing it conventionally, though that savings disappears if the compost is not produced on site or nearby.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

You don't let a historic site rot.

I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.

We have so many issues with overpopulation and urbanization and site looting. And this isn't just Egypt. This is everywhere in the world, even in America. So we only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed.

We want to excite the world about what's out there. But we don't want them to say, 'Oh, there are lots of sites in Egypt - let's loot.'

We only have a limited amount of time left before many archaeological sites all over the world are destroyed. So we have to be really selective about where we dig.