Quotes About Conservation

Such poisoning of waters set aside for conservation purposes could have consequences felt by every western duck hunter and by everyone to whom the sight and sound of drifting ribbons of waterfowl across an evening sky are precious. These

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

I think we should drill up in Alaska.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

I always knew that I was going be an environmental advocate when I was very young.

I write a lot of environmental stories.

I'm not a politically-charged person. I don't want to be. I don't want to talk about politics and I don't want to sing about politics, but if you're talking about environmental issues then you can't talk about one without the other.

I have a major respect for nature. I'm an environmentalist.

Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.

I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agents are even more balls

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it." This

we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet.

Shark Conservation

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

One cannot take natural resources for granted just to entertain viewers.

We must be vigilant in protecting Nevada's outdoor heritage and make this a top priority.

The entire Party, the whole army, and all the people should conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign to make the mountains of the country thick with forests.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy - entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Sea Shepherd does not condone, nor do we practise, violence.

It makes my skin crawl to think about the violent ways snakes, lizards, alligators and other exotic creatures are raised and killed for boots, bags and belts.