Quotes About Conservation

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Don't eat shrimp - it's one of the most unsustainable fish. For every pound that's caught, 10 or 20 pounds of other stuff is killed and dumped back overboard. It's the number one killer of juvenile sea turtles in Mexico. Two good sustainable seafood guides that I'd recommend are from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and the Blue Ocean Institute.

We Americans are churning through fresh water at an alarming and unsustainable rate.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.

We never see any journalism or documentaries on the oceans and what we're doing on this Earth and how it affects the oceans and how important they are. I'm intrigued by it. It's almost an untold story.

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?

For many years, I have sought and studied Agarikon, an unusual mushroom native to the old growth conifer forests of North America and Europe.

We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.

The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

After being nearly eradicated from the lower 48 states by the 1960s, bald eagles were re-introduced to the Adirondacks in the 1980s, and I'm proud to report the view from my home indicates they are flourishing in upstate New York.

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.

YIMBYs should embrace a housing reform agenda broader than increasing urban density. This should start with ending tax shelters in the form of land conservation easements to cattle ranches and farms that abut suburbs. This would create an incentive for landowners convert them either to new housing subdivisions or to genuinely new natural areas.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

When you don't take into account the way ecological systems work, then you do damage.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.

The only way to honor Steve and his legacy and everything he lived for was to try to continue his work and expand on it.

The determination I have to try to continue Steve's work and make the world a better place is so important.