Quotes About Conservation

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

Franklin Roosevelt was very concerned about environmental issues.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment

We are the environment.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

We must conserve our environment and pass it on to our children in as good or better condition than it was passed to us.

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.

Birds are extremely valued as indicators of overall environmental health. If there's a problem in a wild bird population, it's indicative that something went wrong.

Putting the AR movement directly in opposition to the environmental movement, which should be our natural allies in fighting human arrogance and domination of the planet.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

What is urgently needed is a bold new move from a consumer economy to a conserver economy in all of the developed countries, and particularly in the United States.

One must leave an inheritance to their next generation in form of safer environment.