Quotes About Conservation

Print some money and give it to us for the rain forests.

Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.

I see a lot of damage to Mother Earth. I see water being taken from creeks where water belongs to animals, not to oil companies.

One thing my and mother and dad shared completely was their approach to money - they just didn't spend it.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

History is a process of transformation through conversation. In our efforts to produce change,we often forget how important it is to pay attention to what is being conserved.

The conservationist¹s most important task, if we are to save the Earth, is to educate.

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

The good life of any river may depend on the perception of its music; and the preservation of some music to perceive.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!

Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.

Nature is no spendthrift, but takes the shortest way to her ends.

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.