Quotes About Conservation

When you didn't have much, you tended to keep what you had.

For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those who would leave it be.... The only sensible way forward lies in a melding of the two philosophies. If nature has grown artificial, then restoring wilderness requires human intervention. We must manage nature in order to leave it alone.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth's caretakers.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Even in famine the seed corn must be preserved.

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusion about freedom plague them both.

I don't mean to defend zoos. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit.

The jaguar does not care what happens on the African savannah but is very concerned with what happens in the Brazilian rain forests.

She'd dissected Margaret's body without interference, preserving her with formalin, zinc salts, salicylic acid and glycerin. Her organs had been removed and packed in salt for conservation. The family mausoleum had been the perfect resting chamber, as the stone made it easier to keep the body at optimal cold temperature.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

How will we be inspired to love and protect the natural wold we depend on if we have no direct experience in it?

Support your right to arm bears.

On the environmental front there's concern about global warming and high levels of carbon dioxide, and trees take in CO2 and store carbon.

Forget the planet, save the garden.

There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a business in liquidation.

There cannot be new things in England. There can be old things freshly presented or new things that pretend to be old.

I think the wolves all died when the great forests were cut down. That howling you hear is only the Londoners.

Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows.

The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We must walk softly, leaving as small a footprint as possible.

Things that you can't go buy another one, that's what you gotta save.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation, in turn, becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on to the future.