Quotes About Conservation

Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia's economy and quality of life.

I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

If you take away anything from this novel, I hope it is an awareness of the cognitive and emotional intelligence of these beautiful animals—and the understanding that it is up to all of us to protect them.

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

If we do not design policies to halt, and then reverse population growth, Nature by default will soon exact a most punishing solution

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you've made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.

I can assure you that there is no question of us throwing away the tradition of the Grammar Schools.

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.

We're driving the largest cleanup in history.

I can't think of anything more important than the environment we leave to our children and our children's children.

Water is on the table for every single one us. When it's gone, game over. I don't care what company you run; I don't care if you're Republican or liberal.

I want to do a big donation to the pandas for all the panda lovers out there.

I am a big lover of the environment. I actually come from Maine, which is pretty much all environment.

You do only live once, and I feel like if I'm able to make a difference on this planet and leave it just a little better than I found it, then I've done my job.

Part of brand management is what you don't do, not what you do.

Strolling through Bia?owieza's mass of life, one would never guess the role it played in Lutz Heck's ambitions, the Warsaw Zoo's fate, and the altruistic opportunism of Jan and Antonina, who capitalized on the Nazis' obsession with prehistoric animals and a forest primeval to rescue scores of endangered neighbors and friends.

Heinz Heck wrote after the war that he and his brother had begun the back-breeding project out of curiosity, but also from the thought that if man cannot be halted in his mad destruction of himself and other creatures, it is at least a consolation if some of those kinds of animals he has already exterminated can be brought back to life again.

Over 2,000 reptiles await you.

This was extraordinary, as Mrs. Fountain was so cheap she washed out her old tinfoil to roll in a ball and use again

but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, and so the total amount of energy which is present before and after any physical transaction will not be changed. This principle is called 'the conservation of energy'.