Quotes About Conservation

The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

It is, by common consent, a good thing for people to get back to nature.

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

a culture is no better than its woods

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

Nature has gifted this rich biological diversity to us. We will not allow it to become the monopoly of a handful of corporations. We will keep it as the basis of our wealth and our sustenance.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it