Quotes About Conservation

Want to know the Duggar family motto? 'Buy used, and save the difference.'

I have made my home among the mountain gorillas.

I can say that if anyone has worked to save the mountains, they are women.

The movement for the environment really only started in the mid 1970's.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

In the 1950s and '60s, America's natural resources were in bad shape. Communities were so polluted that clouds of smog lingered over cities like Los Angeles. Rivers and lakes were filled with chemicals. In my hometown of Boston, the harbor was among the nation's most polluted waterways.

Doing what's best for our kids means restoring balance, commonsense and conservation to the management of our natural resources.

Partnering with local governments to conserve critical working landscapes and protect our abundant natural resources is key to maximizing the conservation impact of state funds.

I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.

The natural world is not indestructible.

Nature abhors annihilation.

Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really. (Would you like fries with that? Shut up and stop killing whales! Thank you. Drive through, please.)

Sólo el bibliotecario, además de saber, está autorizado a moverse por el laberinto de los libros, sólo él sabe dónde encontrarlos y dónde guardarlos, sólo él es responsable de su conservación...

Si se difundiera la idea de que, al contaminar el mundo, no solo se perjudica a las ballenas sino también (perdonen el tecnicismo) a la polla, creo que asistiríamos a repentinas conversiones al ecologismo.

Se por acaso se espalhasse a ideia de que a poluição no mundo compromete não só as baleias mas também (desculpem o tecnicismo) os perus, acho que teríamos súbitas conversões ao ecologismo.

The key to life in this dry heat was conservation of everything: water, food, emotion. That last one was the biggest challenge.

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

April 14 had been dubbed Black Sunday. Apparently three hundred thousand tons of Great Plains topsoil had flown into the air that day. More soil than had been dug up to build the Panama Canal. The dirt had fallen to the ground as far away as Washington, D.C.

The only solution was education, offering the chance of experiencing at first hand the land and traditions of their forebears and proving that one can and should coexist with the wild, in harmony … that one can, and should, learn how to utilize Nature without spoiling it, in

The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of a world so expansive as to be impervious to harm. But today, the Amazon River Basin, occupying more than 2.7 million square miles is at our fingertips and is considered one of the most ecologically threatened regions of the world.

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.

Man is an endangered species.

Our trees in our forests need protection to ensure that those cut are replanted and cutting is done wisely.

Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances . Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.