Quotes About Conservation

Be careful with our Nature, the reflection will be not knowing mercy.

If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.

The original architects of quantum mechanics insisted on this conservation as a philosophical principle worth respecting. They built quantum mechanics to operationally safeguard information.

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

Even a fool recognizes that there is great sadness in a bucket of tears. But only a wise man thinks to conserve water and use that bucket to wash his car.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Without such means it might even risk the loss of that part of the constitution which it wished the most religiously to preserve.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

It must be represented, too, in great masses of accumulation, or it is not rightly protected. The characteristic essence of property, formed out of the combined principles of its acquisition and conservation, is to be unequal. The great masses, therefore, which excite envy, and tempt rapacity, must be put out of the possibility of danger. Then they form a natural rampart about the lesser properties in all their gradations. The same quantity of property which is by the natural

I do not like to see any thing destroyed; any void produced in society; any ruin on the face of the land.

Do keep these trees, keep all the wonderful scenery of this wonderful state unmarred by vandalism or the folly of man.

a mammy's boy who never married and who keeps a shotgun in case of trespassers, but loves his trees, loves his woodland, and honors a covenant set down by his great-uncle, which was that no tree should ever be wantonly cut down.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Giuro davanti a Dio che non toccherò mai più né i fiori, né le piante, né le lucertole.

The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.

Harmony with the land is like harmony with a friend. You cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left. That is to say you cannot have game and hate predators. The land is one organism.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

To keep every cog and every wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left.

A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise.

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.