Quotes About Conservation

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

In all aspects of my life, I try to reduce my impact on the earth - that includes snowboarding, as well.

To harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator.

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

To me the foundation of all life is in the ocean.

The death of the forest is the end of our life.

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

Life on our planet is defined by the health of our ocean.

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

tiger is a large-hearted gentleman with boundless courage and that when he is exterminated—as exterminated he will be unless public opinion rallies to his support—India will be the poorer, having lost the finest of her fauna.

Since the day he came into office, President Bush has worked to gut more than 34 years of hard work by weakening many of our Nation's standing environmental laws, some of which were signed into law by his father.

What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots we water, to whom most of us rarely give a second thought, are so poorly understood. We need to come, as soon as possible, to a profound understanding and appreciation for trees and forests and the vital role they play, for they are among our best allies in the uncertain future that is unfolding.

Planting trees, I myself thought for a long time, was a feel-good thing, a nice but feeble response to our litany of modern-day environmental problems. In the last few years, though, as I have read many dozens of articles and books and interviewed scientists here and abroad, my thinking on the issue has changed. Planting trees may be the single most important ecotechnology that we have to put the broken pieces of our planet back together.

A man with keen preservation

If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

We do not exploit our dolphins for profit.

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

We must not risk defunding environmental conservation programs, which is why Congress should reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund to preserve our natural resources.

There are 13 Asian countries that still have elephants, and Elephant Family is looking to invest in further projects that will be the most critical for saving elephants while there is still time.

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment.

'The Lorax' book was intended to be propaganda.