Quotes About Conservation

I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope for humankind. Health to the ocean means health for us.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

We must come to understand our past, our history, in terms of the soil and water and forests and grasses that have made it what it is.

We ought not to endeavor to revise history according to our latter day notions of what things ought to have been, or upon the theory that the past is simply a reflection of the present

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

The commonest forms of amateur natural history in the United States are probably gardening, bird watching, the maintenance of aquarium fish, and nature photography.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity and expansion into habitats they call home.

I still think we are smart enough to not destroy planet Earth, our only home.

A person who undertakes to grow a garden at home, by practices that will preserve rather than exploit the economy of the soil, has his mind precisely against what is wrong with us.

If you are energy-efficient and water-wise at home, then take all your good habits abroad with you.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world.

Every green natural place we save saves a fragment of our sanity and gives us a little more hope that we have a future.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

All we can hope for is that the thing is going to slowly and imperceptibly shift. All I can say is that 50 years ago there were no such thing as environmental policies.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.