Quotes About Conservation

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.

Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.

Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

Nature always looks out for the preservation of the universe.

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature.

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

The quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.