Quotes About Conservation

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

Thornton W. Burgess

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

beg them to compare the Oostvaardersplassen not with their dreamtime Europe of the classical age, but with a long-vanished continent where large mammals, rather than agricultural practices, shaped landscapes.

There are now more wolves in Europe than in the United States, including Alaska!

There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.

I know it's become a cliche of sorts, but, nonetheless, it is true. This is the only planet we and our children and children's children will call home. We can't afford to lose this home because we didn't protect it.

I'm normally quite restrictive in the runs department.

Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

we must do all we can do without destroying our ability to keep doing it.

Should I ration the lavatory paper, do you think, sir,' Finch said, 'or put up notices asking everyone to conserve?

la función que tiene la memoria es la de proteger las impresiones, mientras que el recuerdo apunta a su disolución. La memoria es en esencia conservadora, en tanto que el recuerdo intenta destruir".

Until then, electricity had been thought to involve two types of fluids, called vitreous and resinous, that could be created independently. Franklin's discovery that the generation of a positive charge was accompanied by the generation of an equal negative charge became known as the conservation of charge and the single-fluid theory of electricity.

Harvard professor I. Bernard Cohen has pronounced, "Franklin's law of conservation of charge must be considered to be of the same fundamental importance to physical science as Newton's law of conservation of momentum.

A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery.

It is possible, I think, to say that... a Christian agriculture [is] formed upon the understanding that it is sinful for people to misuse or destroy what they did not make. The Creation is a unique, irreplaceable gift, therefore to be used with humility, respect, and skill.

For the sake of "job creation," in Kentucky, and in other backward states, we have lavished public money on corporations that come in and stay only so long as they can exploit people here more cheaply than elsewhere. The general purpose of the present economy is to exploit, not to foster or conserve. (from 'Compromise, Hell!' published in the November/December 2004 issue of ORION magazine)

It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.

Animals shouldn't be hunted and nature shouldn't be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

Ignorance about sharks and their important role is remarkable: even at a marine science conference in China, I was served shark-fin soup (and my refusal, as a guest of honour, caused bafflement as much as consternation).

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.