Quotes About Conservation

Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.

We have a fantastic array of birds of prey here in the U.K.

A low-water economy should rest on the principle that water be left in its natural state in the environment as much as possible. Every drop extracted must be justified. Every drop used must be recycled and reused whenever possible.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

People habitat has to take priority over bird habitat.

The need to protect the environment has emerged as an undeniably important priority for me.

We need to put a priority on environment, health, and safety protections.

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants.

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

I became an environmentalist because I love the living world, but I spend much of my life thinking about electricity, industrial processes and civil engineering.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

It's not called the low country for nothing, it's literally at sea level. If we don't start paying attention to conservation in our environment, the water levels are going to rise and those areas are going to start disappearing.

European fisheries are a disaster. The American fisheries are well-kept.

The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.

We've made extraordinary progress on the environment over the decades, and that's something we should celebrate.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

The Arctic Ocean is completely unprotected, so technically, people can do with it whatever they like.

Our farmers are constantly deploying conservation techniques that keep our environment strong - and it's time we made them a consistent part of our efforts to protect it.

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

Looting and site destruction are global problems. We have a tough road ahead, and one key will be developing more collaborations and using new technologies like satellite imagery.

In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.