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Quotes About Conservation

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.
~ Al Gore
My dad is very environmentally conscious, and so I've always been close to nature.
~ Madelaine Petsch
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
~ Arne Jacobsen
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
~ Ian Somerhalder
If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.
~ Thomas Friedman
I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.
~ Princess Michael of Kent
All great peoples are conservative.
~ Thomas Carlyle
If conservation isn't conservative, then words have no meaning at all.
~ Chris Gibson
I'll always feel most comfortable in khaki surrounded by animals, but it is really fun to try different styles.
~ Bindi Irwin
The whole basis of conserving is not about nature - it is about people. If we don't look after the people surrounding the place, and if they don't have the value of preserving it in their pockets, then they are not going to preserve it.
~ Mohit Chauhan
I guess over the course of time, I started to open up to a lot of the issues surrounding the oceans. From my personal experience, being out in the water and seeing plastics floating around and thinking they are jellyfish and realizing they're plastic bags. I'm always that guy that will take it into the shore.
~ Cody Simpson
Protecting our Great Lakes and conserving this resource for the next generation is critical both for surrounding communities and our planet as a whole.
~ Brad Schneider
I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security - the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
The mountain gorilla faces grave danger of extinction - primarily because of the encroachments of native man upon its habitat - and neglect by civilized man, who does not conscientiously protect even the limited areas now allotted for the gorilla's survival.
~ Dian Fossey
Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith.
~ Catherine Cortez-Masto
Since the majority of the oxygen we breathe comes from the ocean, not to mention much of the world's protein, it is not an exaggeration to say that when our oceans' health declines, our very survival is at risk.
~ Brian Skerry
In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution - and not altruistic compassion - as the final word on the survival of a species.
~ S.E. Cupp
The elephant can survive only if forests survive.
~ Mark Shand
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
~ Silvia Cartwright
I could cut my leg of; I could cut my arm off. I could gouge my eye out - I'd still probably survive, but not very well, and that's what we're doing to the ocean. It's the life support system of this planet. We've been dumping in it, we've been polluting it, we've been destroying it for decades, and we're essentially maiming ourselves.
~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
~ David Chipperfield
So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.
~ Dave Matthews
The future is green energy, sustainability, renewable energy.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
~ Jochen Zeitz