Quotes About Conservation

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

One hundred million acres had lost most of its topsoil and nearly half had been "essentially destroyed" and could not be farmed again, Bennett said.

When Congress passed the Soil Conservation Act, it marked the first time any nation had created such a unit.

the mist of early morning peels away to reveal the same sight, the untended casualties of Western man's war with the rain forest.

while the number of Cascade hikers has increased sixfold since 1960, nearly a third of the trail mileage has been lost to logging and neglect.

Eighty-four islands in the San Juan chain are wildlife refuges; of those, humans are allowed to visit only three.

What saved the land, this study found, was what Hugh Bennett had started: getting farmers to enter contracts with a soil conservation district and manage the land as a single ecological unit.

Of all the foes which attack the woodlands of North America, no other is so terrible as fire.

Leave it as it is. You cannot improve it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. Keep it for your children, your children's children, and for all who come after you.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's loveliness," Muir said

Naturalist Roger Tory Peterson has calculated that the Olympic Rain Forest is weighted down with more living matter than any other place on earth.

the Forest Service has punched 343,000 miles of logging roads into the vast stands of public trees—more than seven times the 44,000 miles of road built by the national highway system.

many of us presume nature has no value beyond our ability to exploit it.

Booble, the world must know of your ways. I will fight for your survival. One day people will understand and stop destroying your homes and killing your kind. I'll return next year, and protect you, Booble.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.

Every fish in the ocean is in danger.

I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'

I would love to go help baby sea turtles back into the ocean after hatching in Mexico.

In Hawaii, we understand that our way of life depends on a healthy ocean.

Really, the ocean itself - that's really the thing that we're up against, the most destructive environment on the planet.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

I love the ocean and I'm passionate about conservation and the environment.