Quotes About Conservation

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Letting the tundra melt is the equivalent to burning all of the forests in all of the world and their roots two and a half times over.

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

I'm trying to get across the message that don't be afraid of animals, they're just put on this earth to help the environment and everything like that.

I don't believe in messing with mother-nature too much.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

These dictates of Reason, men use to call by the name of Lawes; but improperly: for they are but Conclusions, or Theoremes concerning what conduceth to the conservation and defence of themselves; whereas Law, properly is the word of him, that by right hath command over others. But yet if we consider the same Theoremes, as delivered in the word of God, that by right commandeth all things; then are they properly called Lawes.

I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.

The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder, it pains me to an unspeakable degree.

Alaska is much larger than France and Germany—combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport.

We hesitate not to affirm that it is the peculiar mission of the Southern Church to conserve the institution of slavery, and to make it a blessing both to master and slave."27

We must live according to the principle of a land ethic. The alternative is that we shall not live at all.

Equus przewalskii—the Przewalskii

Kelly Milner Halls

blew out 5 million acres of fields, and in the space of a day carried off twice as much dirt as had been excavated by the United States in the decade it took to dig the Panama Canal.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Just remember it's the birds that's supposed to suffer, not the hunter.

Yellowstone, a place so special and awe-inspiring that after exploring it in 1871, the Hayden Expedition conceived of the original concept of the world's first national park—a set-aside of 2. 2 million acres containing more than ten thousand thermal features, canyons, waterfalls, and wildlife—so no man or corporation could ever own it.

In Wyoming, the people owned the game animals, and they took their ownership to heart.

trophy hunters,