Quotes About Conservation

This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.

Most people can't see the connection between their own lives and the oceans.

The facts are clear. Our oceans are a mess.

We could truly make our oceans clean again.

Offshore drilling is not the answer, it is not going to get us anything.

Greenlanders' heart is the environment. You can't sell your heart for oil.

Oil is drowning our oceans and drowning our boreal forests.

My life is to travel, and my life is also to speak out about the horrors of an environment that is being abused at the hands of oil companies.

What a lot of the public doesn't know, and I'm sure my fans aren't aware of, orcas have died living at Sea World, and that has not been from old age.

My father, OK, when we first got old enough to hunt, this was his rule: If you shoot it, you come home and eat it. Otherwise you do not shoot it, OK? You don't just kill something for the sake of killing it, OK? If you kill it, you gotta grill it, so to speak.

I don't know how many lions and leopards I've shot. I've shot two elephants, which was enough - never again. It's a melancholy and moving thing to hunt an elephant. It's like shooting an old man.

One of the things you see in New York is that offices keep their lights on at night. They're proud of their building. Great. But they must find another way to be proud without draining energy.

First, we should not be opening our coasts, all of our coasts, to oil drilling when we have not taken the first step, not the first step, to conserve oil.

The language of the wilderness is the most beautiful language we have and it is our job to sing it, until and even after it is gone, no matter how much it hurts.

Never kill anything that's rare," my father had said. "I'm lucky I didn't kill an elephant," I replied. "You'd have had a mighty square meal if you had," he answered. My

Dallas held that historic Christian knowledge represents the "knowledge of God" made available to us through tradition, scriptures, reason, and experience. As such, we must be willing to suffer the consequences of conserving the truth, speaking truth in love, and trusting God to care for us when the public tide turns away from what God has revealed as good and best.

May the forests be with you and with your children.

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, with a single powerful blow, shattered for all time a complex article of fundamental articles of our cultural faith; that the world was capable of repairing any damage we might do to it; that the world was designed to do this, that the world was on our side; that God himself had fashioned the world specifically to support our efforts to conquer and rule it.

We have spent the best part of the past century enthusiastically testing the world to utter destruction; not looking closely enough at the long-term impact our actions will have.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.