Quotes About Conservation

We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

I was a kid that loved reptiles and eventually started an organization dedicated to saving turtles and tortoises, called the Turtle Conservancy, where we protect land and basically do species conservation around the world.

Any nature documentary or TV show will always make you start thinking differently about what surrounds us and how to take care of it.

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.

Scientists are always the ones who head into the ocean, but I want to take writers and politicians, people who can convey the beauty that is there and perhaps do something to take care of it.

It can't eat him. I forbid it. (Artemis) She can do as she pleases. I taught her to waste not, want not. (Acheron)

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

I have become an environmentalist, because it is over the environment that the last of the Indian Wars will be fought.

This explains why I've been making Recession Tea- letting a teabag steep for half the time it should so I can use it again for a second cup later.

Everyone had learned to despise waste. It was creeping back into fashion, though.

It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.

The destruction of the natural beauty, the ecosystems, and the majesty of mountains affect us in ways we're not even aware of. Every time a mountain is beheaded, we chop off a little part of our souls.

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.

We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

As someone who has grown up living in Southern California, I know all too well about the costs and scarcities of water.

The 'Protect America First Act' is critical to secure our Southern border, conserve American culture, and defend U.S. sovereignty.

An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.

The science is clear: to solve the climate crisis, we must protect our natural spaces.