Quotes About Conservation

Water keepers patrol local waterways and prosecute polluters. Essentially, they act as the community's coast guard.

You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

The fact that we're catching more fish per person than we've ever done before doesn't mean that there are not particular places where we've managed fisheries badly.

Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

The EPA has performed a very important role for us all.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

Over time events trickle out of the minds of forgetful, thoughtless people, and so, since they retain and conserve nothing, the empty space within them, that should be filled with good things, is filled instead with hopes, so that they neglect the present and look to the future, despite the fact that fortune may yet foil the future, whereas the present cannot be taken away.

The early morning is mine and I'm glad of it. Back home, I bumble about in my vest and shorts, tipping water from the icebox into a bucket to swab the floor, pushing the new block into place. I boil coffee on the Primus and sing to myself as I start clearing away last night's dinner things, carefully observing our systems for the conservation of water.

Eucalyptus trees are for us, pine trees for our children, and cork trees are for our grandchildren

Birds Save The Environment We Save The Birds. ... Respected Dear All On Earth !

WATER ! You Are The Key Of My Life. .. You Open My Cells You Open My Organs You Open My Tissues Without you drink how could i live. Without you drop how could i exist. Love Water. Respect Water. Save Water.

Don't blow it - good planets are hard to find.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.

Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.

But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.

We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.

In the countryside, litter doesn't have a friend. It doesn't have anybody who's saying, 'Wait a minute, this is really starting to get out of control.'

Congo has vast stands of biologically important forests as well as remote areas still waiting to be explored, yet we have very few botanists. I'm working to expand training for young students and inspire a new generation to make discoveries, spread the word about conservation, and increase protected areas throughout our country.