Quotes About Conservation

We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.

Audubon considered it a bad day if he didn't shoot a hundred birds. "It's amazing that his name has become synonymous with conservation.

All the rhinos are dead, for the most part. I think that's really sad.

It isn't a coincidence that skepticism about climate change tends to be the preserve of the nationalist right. You rarely see left-wing socialists tweet that "climate change is a Chinese hoax." Since there is no national answer to the problem of global warming, some nationalist politicians prefer to believe the problem does not exist.15

A rare wild rhinoceros on the brink of extinction is probably more satisfied than a calf who spends its short life inside a tiny box, fattened to produce juicy steaks.

If we knew how many species we've already eradicated, we might be more motivated to protect those that still survive.

Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions. We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.

Talvez se mais pessoas estivessem cientes da Primeira e da Segunda Onda de Extinção, seriam menos indiferentes à Terceira Onda, da qual fazem parte. Se soubéssemos quantas espécies já erradicamos, poderíamos ser mais motivados a proteger as que ainda sobrevivem.

La consideración tradicional del mundo como un pastel de tamaño invariable presupone que solo hay dos tipos de recursos en el mundo: materias primas y energía. Pero en realidad hay tres tipos de recursos: materias primas, energía y conocimiento. Las materias primas y la energía pueden agotarse: cuanto más las usamos, menos tenemos. El conocimiento, en cambio, es un recurso en aumento: cuanto más lo usamos, más tenemos.

ecological collapse.

Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. Traveling is my form of self-education. Every stream I fish now is not as good as it used to be. If you keep your eyes open as you travel around, you realize we are destroying this planet.

What we take, how and what we make, what we waste, is in fact a question of ethics.

Reusing something instead of immediately discarding it, when done for the right reasons, can be an act of love which expresses our own dignity. —

Already the once sweet-watered streams, most of which bore Indian names, were clouded with silt and the wastes of man; the very earth was being ravaged and squandered. To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature-the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy glades, the water, the soil, and the air itself.

It was a time of repurposing. "Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without," was the motto of the time.

noted naturalist and Sierra Club cofounder John Muir,

We don't have to sacrifice a strong economy for a healthy environment.

Lest we forget, we don't inherit Earth from our ancestors, but we borrow it from our next generations yet to come. Keep her beautiful, and protect her from environmentally unsafe materials.

Nie odziedzicz? nasze matki ziemi po naszych przodkach, lecz po prostu po?yczy? j? od naszych dzieci i naszych najbli?szych przysz?ych pokole?. Musimy utrzyma? jej pi?kno, elegancj? i wdzi?k; i chroni? j? przed materia?ów niebezpiecznych dla ?rodowiska - które powinny by? nasze zaanga?owanie na dzie? ziemi!

No heredamos nuestra madre tierra de nuestros antepasados, pero simplemente prestado su de nuestros niños y nuestras próximas generaciones por venir. Debemos mantener su belleza, elegancia y gracia; y protegerla de materiales peligrosos para el medio ambiente - que debe ser nuestro compromiso en el día de la tierra!

We don't inherit our Mother Earth from our ancestors, but we simply borrow her from our children and our next generations yet to come. We must maintain her beauty, elegance and grace; and protect her from environmentally unsafe materials - that should be our commitment on the Earth Day!

Look what the mortals are doing to themselves. Look at what they've done to the world. They're bleeding the planet dry. They're poisoning the air, the land and the sea, and they know exactly what they're doing,

If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was.

The Indians' botanical knowledge is disappearing even faster than the plants themselves.