Quotes About Conservation

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

Men can know more than their ancestors did if they start with a knowledge of what their ancestors had already learned....That is why a society can be progressive only if it conserves its traditions.

Right in the Hart of the Africn Jungel a small wite man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the frind of all animals.

It's not whether animals will survive, it's whether man has the will to save them.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll evolve to become so skilled at fishing he destroys the ocean and kills every last fish.

With man gone, will there be hope for gorilla?

I believe in the rights of creatures other than man.

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled for it.

Man has injured every animal he has touched.

I'm always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money. Don't focus on making money, focus on protecting what you have

Environmentalists changed the word jungle to rain forest, because no one would give them money to save a jungle. Same with swamps and wetlands.

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.