Quotes About Conservation

We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever.

To understand the living present, and the promise of the future, it is necessary to remember the past.

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

If our salmon are not healthy, then our watersheds are not healthy-and if our watersheds our not healthy, then we have truly squandered our heritage and mortgaged our future.

I am not willing to let the market-place determine the future of the animal kingdom.

Treat the Earth as though we intend to stay here

So much of our future lies in preserving our past.

FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.

The concept of 'peak oil' has penetrated the hearts and minds of people concerned about energy for the future. 'Peak fish' occurred around the end of the 1980s.

The key to understanding the future is one word: sustainability.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Tek kad sasje?ete posljednje drvo, tek kad zatrujete posljednju rijeku, tek kad upecate posljednju ribu, tek tada ?ete saznati da se novac ne može jesti." Proro?anstvo Cree Indijanaca

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

de la necesidad lampedusiana de que todo cambie para que todo siga igual.

When it comes to looking after all the species that are already endangered, there's such a lot to do that sometimes it might all seem to be too much, especially when there are so many other important things to worry about. But if we stop trying, the chances are that pretty soon we'll end up with a world where there are no tigers or elephants, or sawfishes or whooping cranes, or albatrosses or ground iguanas. And I think that would be a shame, don't you?

And the new people just did not appreciate the importance of recycling,

I don't like to waste anything. Any food left over from the night before is always eaten the next day.

Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, economical, efficient and visionary, to guide people in changing their lifestyles and practices to emulate sustainable natural cycles, where all discarded materials are designed to become resources for others to use. Zero Waste means designing and managing products and processes to systematically avoid and eliminate the volume and toxicity of waste and materials, conserve and recover all resources and not burn or bury them.