Quotes About Conservation

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed; it can only be changed from one form to another.

A love of nature keeps no factories busy.

La felicidad universal conserva los engranajes funcionando con regularidad; la verdad y la belleza, no. Y

If you want nature to treat you well, you must treat nature well. If you start destroying nature, nature will destroy you, and this basic moral precept is fundamental in our present knowledge of ecology and conservation. What we know now about ecology points to the fact that nature exists in the most delicate balance, and that anything which tends to upset the balance will produce consequences of the most unexpected character and often of the most disastrous character.

She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful.

And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that will be the end of the bubblegum tree - forever'. Nobody said anything. Billy thought that he had never heard such a sad story before. Surely somebody could do something before the bubblegum trees before it was too late.

Stand unshod upon it for the ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator," Alan Paton wrote. "Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed."4

Everyone understands that you can prolong the life of an oil-based economy by discovering new oil deposits. It seems to be harder to understand that the same result can be achieved by burning less oil. A breakthrough in energy efficiency is equivalent, in its effect on the stock of available oil, to the discovery of a new oil field—although different people profit from it.

Lampedusa had it right—things had to seem to change so that things could remain the same.

Conservation," Pinchot famously wrote, "means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.

Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.

Today the wolverines of the Lower 48 are confined to a few remote parts of Montana, Idaho, and northern Wyoming, with perhaps a dozen more in Washington's North Cascades. They total no more than 500 and more likely number just 300 or fewer.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Catch! calls the Once-ler. He lets something fall. It's a Truffula Seed. It's the last one of all! You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds. And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back.

But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

I speak for the trees!

I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!