Quotes About Conservation

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

Though large herds of deer do much harm to the neighbourhood, yet the injury to the morals of the people is of more moment than the loss of their crops.

Since we're all Mother Earth's children, I like to think that more and more of us will be out there helping her against those who are hurting her.

Animals interest me more than anything else.

Aotearoa is one of the most beautiful places in the world and we have to protect that.

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The economic value of ecotourism related to coral reefs alone totals some $9 billion.

The left, to be quite blunt about it, has something to conserve. It is the right that has inherited the ambitious modernist urge to destroy and innovate in the name of a universal project.

Nature is thus more than a diverse gene bank harboring undiscovered herbal cures for future diseases—although

Alaska's governor Walter Hickel, a champion of development, builder of shopping malls, and proponent of wolf control, told NBC News, "You just can't let nature run wild.

The greatest gift we can leave this world is the forest and the sea the way we found it, separate and the same, the oldest home of all, older and more beautiful than all the things industrious people pride themselves in building.

James Watt, the Secretary of the Interior under Reagan claimed, "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand."98

To damage the earth is to damage your children. —WENDELL BERRY, FARMER AND POET

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.

Maybe we'll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely.

The conservation of energy in the atomic model found its final treatment in the hands of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), who, like Mayer, started from physiological considerations, and about whom we spoke in detail in the previous chapter. In his fundamental work of 1847 [18] he explicitly introduced the concept of potential energy.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

Liberals and progressives will spend inordinate amounts of time and money to protect fish, frogs, and flies. But they do not think a 17-week-old, a 20-week-old, a 24-week-old is worth saving?

Scientists estimate that it took a thousand years for an inch of topsoil to accumulate on the arid high plains. It was the work of a moment to blow it away. Topsoil exposed by the disc plows turned to dust, and the dust began to eddy, roil, and lift on the wind. "Rolling dusters," they were called, or "black blizzards." There were fourteen of them in 1932. The year after that, thirty-eight.

I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.

But rewilding, unlike conservation, has no fixed objective: it is driven not by human management but by natural processes. There is no point at which it can be said to have arrived. Rewilding of the kind that interests me does not seek to control the natural world, to re-create a particular ecosystem or landscape, but – having brought back some of the missing species – to allow it to find its own way.

Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.

Rewilding is not about abandoning civilization but about enhancing it. It is to 'love not man the less, but Nature more'.

The sheep has caused more extensive environmental damage in this country than all the building that has ever taken place here.