Quotes About Conservation

Man has too long forgotten that the earth was given to him for usufruct alone, not for consumption, still less for profligate waste.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Truly environmentalism has displaced economics as the dismal science.

How little we really know about the life all around us. Would we be so cavalier and ruthless with it if we understood it better?

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

You cannot seriously address the destruction of wilderness without addressing the society that is destroying it.

Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

ivory in the nineteenth century was a more rare and expensive version of what plastic is today

By then the trade problems between Japan and the United States were a central topic of conservation. In fact, many nasty things were being said about Japan in the United States because of the bilateral trade imbalance between Japan and the U.S. Some people were accusing Japan of sending a torrent of merchandise to the U.S., which was forcing Americans out of jobs.

China has led the world in new tree planting; in fact, over the last several years, China has planted 40 percent as many tress as the rest of the world put together. Since 1981, all citizens of China older than age eleven (and younger than sixty) have been formally required to plant at least three trees per year. To date, China has planted approximately 100 million acres of new tress. Following China, the countries with the largest net gains in tress include the U.S., India, Vietnam, and Spain.

We endanger species.

We can talk all we want about conservation biology and about the use of science to measure biodiversity,45 but in the real, physical world the real, physical effects of science on real, living nonhumans has been nothing short of atrocious.

Restraint is the key to regeneration and hence, also, sustainability.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow

When you realize the value of all life you dwell less on past and concentrate more on the conservation of the future.

The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people.