Quotes About Conservation

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our lives to.

'Kadamban' is a movie with a social message on deforestation. Along with my daughter Madhuvanthi, I am playing a significant role.

I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.

I believe everyone deserves access to clean air and water, and that climate change has exacerbated this challenge.

People are saying that the next war will be about water. Let's make sure there will be no next war, and let's make sure that we treat water the way it deserves.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Vaca Diez, do not destroy our country!

We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

As an engineer and a student of science too I believe that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. If that is the case, then energy is universal.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

Filter from your tap, and if you do occasionally buy the bottles, please recycle.

We need to close the tap, which means preventing more plastic from reaching the ocean in the first place.

The concentration of plastic is rapidly increasing in the gyres. Even if you were to close off the tap, and no more plastic entered the ocean, that plastic would stay there, probably for hundreds of years.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

Tax what you burn not what you earn.

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

On a local level, hunters in states around the country have provided billions of dollars for conservation efforts. Money collected from hunting license sales, taxes on ammunition and firearms and other hunting equipment often goes directly to properly maintaining land and conservation efforts.

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.