Quotes About Conservation

Joe Pickett's

your mind, as it was evolved to do, will attempt to avoid excess expenditure of energy when possible.

and we'll all be martialed to the task of protecting some obscure species of newt from the ravages of a predatory industrial giant bent on planting a fetid factory on the little amphibian's breeding ground.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The days a man spends fishing or spends hunting should not be deducted from the time that he's on earth. In other words, if I fish today, that should be added to the amount of time I get to live. That's the way I look at recreation. That's why I'll be a big conservation, environmental President, because I plan to fish and hunt as much as I possibly can.

What should you do when you see an endangered animal that is eating an endangered plant?

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Pete Bethune is a hero in New Zealand. He's a hero worldwide to people who want to see the end of whaling.

From Nike, we buy victory. From Under Armour, we buy protection. From Lululemon, we buy zen. From Patagonia, we buy conservation. From BMW, we buy performance.

Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.

A golf course should aspire to generate as much energy as it consumes - golf should be leading the way toward energy net zero.

Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.

You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

Despite their lack of visual impact, headline sex-appeal, and their 'out of sight, out of mind' nature, we should all care about aquatic dead zones because we are all connected to their causes and we all feel their impacts.

Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.

What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.

I have a complicated relationship with the zoo; maybe everyone does. It's so wonderful and so sad.

It was wrong to capture wild animals and confine them in captivity for people to go and gawk at them. And that's basically how zoos got started. But once you do that, and once you have animals that have been bred in captivity, you're really stuck with them in some sense. You can't return them to the wild.

For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to sea on their bellies, giant pandas holding bamboo lollipops in China or tree porcupines in the Canadian Rockies, balled up like giant pine cones.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.