Quotes About Conservation

To remember what bio-diversity is and why it is important, we must conserve nature close to where we live and work as well as develop distant reserves.

When the last tree is cut and the last fish killed, the last river poisoned, then you will see that you can't eat money.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

Eventually we'll realize that if we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves.

What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

Be gentle with the earth.

I think my path would have always gone back to or delivered me to wildlife. I think wildlife is just like a magnet, and it's something that I can't help.

We can't impede progress in the name of environmental action that yields little for the environment and even less for our people.. and we should look at the environment as an economic opportunity.

People who minister worldwide to protect and conserve the environment are of no lower status than those who minister to plant churches.

The awareness of our environment came progressively in all countries with different outlets.

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

A 1.5 litres/100km (3 mpg) increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres (41,994,994.53 US gallons) of oil a day.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

We should end the Environmental Protection Agency's war against American oil and gas.