Quotes About Conservation

If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and the the Once Best Place.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

I think the best way to protect the ocean is to encourage people onto it and into it.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

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

Resource efficiency - it's about only taking what we need

Anything that's left that's remotely like wilderness should be left strictly alone. We have no business there any more. It's not going to save you to go in and cut the last old-stand forests.

Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge

There is no business on a dead planet

He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!

Man is modifying the world so fast and so drastically that most animals cannot adapt to the new conditions. In the Himalaya as elsewhere there is a great dying, one infinitely sadder than the Pleistocene extinctions, for man now has the knowledge and the need to save these remnants of his past."1

There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destruction of an ancient forest on the grounds that it will earn us substantial export income is problematic, even if we could invest that income and increase its value from year to year; for no matter how much we increase its value, its could never buy back the link with the past represented by the forest.

Everything we get from whales can be obtained without cruelty. Causing suffering to innocent beings without an extremely weighty reason for doing so is wrong, and hence whaling is unethical.

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even though it is possible that future generations will care little for it.

Recordó que en su infancia había alcanzado a comprobar la extinción de una especie tras otra. Los periódicos anunciaban un día la desaparición de los zorros, el siguiente la de los tejones, hasta que la g ente dejó por último de leer aquellos perpetuos obituarios.

We must conserve our strengths for the battles we can win.

One survival technique is a lack of wastefulness; the African puts everything to use.

Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

You climb the mountains or visit the wilderness but leave no trace of having been there.

Yes, wilderness for its own sake, without any need to justify it for human benefit.

It's only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries—not schools or hospitals, libraries—could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve—twin poles of our political mind—were easily and naturally united.

All I want to do is to present the abundance of life on Earth.