Quotes About Conservation

The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder, [and] it pains me to an unspeakable degree." J

One reason that birds matter - ought to matter - is that they are our last, best connection to a natural world that is otherwise receding. They're the most vivid and widespread representatives of the Earth as it was before people arrived on it.

AT LEAST THE WAR ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS GOING WELL.

Not just the industrial farming but the sprawl, the sprawl, the sprawl. Low-density development is the worst. And SUVs everywhere, snowmobiles everywhere, Jet Skis everywhere, ATVs everywhere, two-acre lawns everywhere. The goddamned green monospecific chemical-drenched lawns.

He spoke of his lifelong crusade on behalf of fifty-watt lightbulbs. ("Sixty's too bright," he said, "and forty is too dim.

We aren't exactly emptying the oceans; it's more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.

And there was shame in being human: the shame of knowing that twenty of the roughly thirty-five classified species of sea horse worldwide are threatened with extinction because they are killed "unintentionally" in seafood production.

For every ten tuna, sharks, and other large fish that were in our oceans less than a century ago, only one is left. Many scientists predict the total collapse of all fished species in less than fifty years.

Man kann auch die Waldbrandgefahr mindern, indem man sämtliche Bäume fällt.

Muchos científicos predicen la debacle total de todas las especies de peces en menos de cincuenta años, mientras se realizan intensos esfuerzos por atrapar, matar y comer más animales marinos

decision will help prevent deforestation, curb global warming, reduce pollution, save oil reserves, lessen the burden on rural America, decrease human rights abuses, improve public health, and help eliminate the most systematic animal abuse in world history.

One study found that roughly 4.5 million sea animals are killed as bycatch in longline fishing every year.

For every ten tuna, sharks, and other large predatory fish that were in our oceans fifty to a hundred years ago, only one is left.

Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew.

Rien ne vient de rien & rien ne se perd dans le rien

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

Cuando advenga un tiempo no más empañado por la sombra de esa mala conciencia de la propia culpabilidad, entonces el instinto de conservación de sí mismo creará la tranquilidad íntima, la fuerza exterior para poder actuar sin contemplaciones en la eliminación de los brotes dañinos de la mala hierba.

Lo Stato non è un'associazione di contraenti economici, in uno spazio vitale determinato per perseguire i propri scopi economici ma è piuttosto l'organizzazione di una comunità di esseri fisicamente e spiritualmente solidali, per rendere possibile la conservazione della specie e il raggiungimento dei suoi scopi di esistenza. L'Economia è solo uno dei tanti mezzi che servono al raggiungimento di quella meta

Per tutti i veri nazionalsocialisti non c'è che una meta sola: ciò per cui dobbiamo lottare è la sicurezza della conservazione e dell'aumento della nostra razza e del nostro popolo, del nutrimento dei nostri figli, della purezza del sangue, della libertà ed indipendenza della Patria

You have to focus on what you're passionate about. For me it's the forests and of course, because I'm concerned about the forests, I'm concerned about the way paper is made.

I've always been passionate about animals.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

These garbage patches won't go away by themselves.