Quotes About Conservation

Keep it like it was.

Each additional dam that is built on the Colorado, incidentally, reduces the quantity of usable water, because of unavoidable losses through evaporation and percolation into the porous sandstone containing the reservoirs.)

Edward Abbey

There is a certain primitive attraction in it," Bondi said, "but what about the future? Are we to spend the rest of our lives shooting animals, chewing skins, hiding out from game wardens and county sheriffs?

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Keep America Beautiful.

Only you can prevent forest fires.

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Discover wildlife: be a teacher!

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

Never hurt a ladybug We need them in the garden Ladybugs help flowers grow So we must give them pardon!

Every day is Earth Day.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

this summer scientists announced that in the last 40 yrs humans have killed 60 percent of the wild mammals and fishes and birds on earth. Is that fun? Also in the past 30 yrs, we melted 95 percent of the oldest thickest ice in the arctic.

Reading about declining owl populations led him to deforestation which led to soil erosion which led to ocean pollution which led to coral bleaching, everything warming, melting, and dying faster than scientists predicted, every system on the planet connected by countless invisible threads to every other:

Between 365 million and one billion birds die just from crashing into windows in the United States each year.

Only about one in fifteen great grey eggs hatch and make it to adulthood. Hatchlings get eaten by ravens, martens, black bears, and great horned owls; nestlings often starve. Because they require such extensive hunting grounds, great greys are particularly vulnerable to habitat loss: cattle trample meadows, decimating prey numbers; wildfires incinerate nesting areas; the owls eat rodents that have eaten poison, die in vehicle collisions, and fly into utility wires.

There are almost no foreseeable benefits and the damage to the environment, to wildlife and to tourism will be irreversible.

Although it's difficult, if not impossible, to put a dollar value on the numerous services nature provides, leaving them out of economic calculations means they are often ignored.

Providing financial incentives for both local communities and national governments to conserve and restore forests also makes sense. It will put an economic value on these precious natural resources and drive the right behaviours from both government and business.