Quotes About Conservation

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

If you think the ocean isn't important, imagine Earth without it. Mars comes to mind. No ocean, no life support system.

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?

We live in uncertain times when it comes to the future of life on Earth.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

To protect this earth is to protect the very spirit of life

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of Earth: We arrived, we're humanizing the Earth, and it will be the destiny of Earth for us to wipe humans out and most of the rest of biodiversity. But I think the great majority of thoughtful people consider that a morally wrong position to take, and a very dangerous one.

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

We should pass on to future generations the opportunity to enjoy these places and not have them transformed into ordinary places

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

God bless America. Let's save some of it.

It is not enough to understand the natural world. The point is to defend and preserve it.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

I stand for what I stand on.

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country's river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.