Quotes About Conservation

I agree on the need for environmental sustainability. It is no good raising gross national income while at the same time destroying natural assets.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.

This is the game of those who deny climate change or who deny the need for sustainability. They say, 'They are going to take everything away from us. They are going to take our cars away from us. They are going to take our steaks from us. They are going to take all the things that make life nice away from us. So let's not go there.'

I made my first conservation series for National Geographic in 2000. Ever since I've been finding ways of making my own life as sustainable as it possibly can be.

I don't eat fish because there is no such thing as sustainable fishing in the world right now.

There is only one possible future for humanity, and that is a sustainable one.

If we don't preserve the natural resources, you aren't going to have a sustainable society. This is not something for Chez Panisse and the elite of San Francisco. It's for everyone.

At the end of the 1990s, we decided we should invest our best efforts to work in a sustainable way with the ingredients that the Amazon produces.

Fishing in sustainable ways means fewer fish, higher quality, better price at the market. That is a formula that is good for the environment and the fisherman but bad for the consumer.

Resources businesses must contribute to sustainable development if we are to continue to have access to resources.

Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.

One action society needs to take is to use energy much more efficiently. Instead of incandescent light bulbs, you could switch to LEDs that consume a lot less electricity, for example.

I am involved in Greenpeace. And I just recently completely switched my diet over to near-veganism. So you try to do little things that you can. I recycle every single day. Every single thing in my house that can be recycled is.

Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.

Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.

Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.

My definition of a sin is for humans to allow a species to die out. Animals cannot speak for themselves – it is up to all of us to protect them and their habitats.

Ecomagination Nation",

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

It is a sad fact that to many people the loss of a plant species is of less moment than the loss of a football match. I hate the thought that the only record of a beautiful plant might yet be the grave of the herbarium sheet.