Quotes About Conservation

The only thing I do for posterity is plant trees.

I had read an article about a couple who had developed a private forest in Coorg, and were working towards preserving it. I wanted to do something similar and wanted to give something back to the nature from which we have stolen so much. So my cousins and I bought 24 acres of land and we planted trees in that.

I am not against development, but society will go nowhere if you don't take care of trees.

I will not tolerate killing of trees in the dead of the night.

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.

The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.

Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.

Native plants give us a sense of where we are in this great land of ours. I want Texas to look like Texas and Vermont to look like Vermont.

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love.

When you sail on a boat you take with you the minimum of resources. You don't waste anything. You don't leave the light on; you don't leave a computer screen on... on land we take what we want

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

The living conditions of the poor must be improved if we really want to save our environment

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

To reconnect with nature is key if we want to save the planet.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow.

Bozeman, Montana

Left alone, the Florida panther would be remembered as a textbook exercise on how to go extinct while your abundant and vociferous advocates argue about the process.

Field biologists studying large and charismatic animals wanted to know if their own species had genetic problems. I listened carefully to stories of koalas in Australia, giant pandas in China, black-footed ferrets in the Midwest, elephants, rhinos, and leopards in Africa, and orangutans in Asia--all threatened or endangered species attended by packs of worried field biologists. If cheetahs paid a price for their brush with extinction, did these species suffer the same?

Giant northern elephant seals] were presumed extinct as late as 1912 when a group of eight seals was spotted on Guadalupe Island in the South Pacific by a Smithsonian expedition, which shot seven of them! Fortunately they missed one and failed to spot a few others.

have just been reading in the press the agonizing statement that there are only 4,000,000,000,000 cords of pulp wood left in the world, and that in another fifty years it will be all gone.

Sand did not suddenly come into being because we had need for glass and silicone. Neither did wild flowers suddenly spring up because a bunch of environmentalists in Texas wanted alternative ways of helping the world without dumping more chemicals into it - these things were already there.

On this world you have the animals and they have as much right to be on this world as us; and it's man who is the reason they are pushed to extinction. They're killing them for their tusks and their horns, and these fucking idiots, they think claws will give them sex appeal and they get all fucking sissy on you.