Quotes About Conservation

Civil government is an ordinance of God, to conserve the civil peace of a people, so far as concerns their bodies and goods.

Everybody can make choices that will make peace with the natural world.

We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

It has become my mission to stop the insanity of wild cats as pets.

Your woodlot is, in fact, an historical document which faithfully records your personal philosophy.

If you consume animal derived foods or use other animal derived products you are by no stretch of the imagination an "environmentalist." You are a rank hypocrite.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

I love the environment, but I'm cheap on the environment.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.

My passion is to open people's eyes to the sea using the power of photography as a universal language to convince the unconvinced among us that the oceans are fragile and finite.

Sas soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be

As soon as we label something as "natural", we attach to it the powerful implication that any change from its current state would degrade and damage the way it is "supposed" to be.

What do you call dumping 22,000 pounds of organic chemical waste into the Mississippi River every day? You call it "organic loading.

The law of the conservation of energy is not simply a law of physics; it is a law of the whole moral universe, and

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will never be another setup like the one in which we thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness.

We must define a story which encourages us to make use of the place where we live without killing it, and we must understand that the living world cannot be replicated.