Quotes About Conservation

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

The way to build a strong future is by both protecting the environment and creating good jobs.

Biofuels such as ethanol require enormous amounts of cropland and end up displacing either food crops or natural wilderness, neither of which is good.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

We've have to heed our Biblical obligation to be good stewards of the Earth after leaving the Garden of Eden.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

I am sure that if you plant the trees back again, it will do nothing but good.

Every good thing great and small needs defense

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

America's remaining wild horses are under aggressive attack and rapidly disappearing from government-managed, citizen-owned wilderness spaces.

I want my grandkids to grow up in the great outdoors. The last thing I want is for them to grow up to be nerds.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

The health of our waters is the principle measure of how we live on the land.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

Land health is the capacity for self-renewal in the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise the land.

We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty and send children to school and provide health.

A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our clean water comes from, from the forests.