Quotes About Conservation

Montalbano recalled how in now distant times, when the sea withdrew, it would leave behind only sweet-smelling algae and beautiful shells that were like gifts to mankind. Now it only gave back our own rubbish.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Today's environmentalists turn a blind eye as 25 million people tramp through delicate ecosystems, set fire to national parks, kill livestock, dump tons of soiled diapers and Pepsi bottles in the desert, and deface ancient Native American sites. Political correctness

Prenatal care means taking care of water, fish, and glaciers.

Do you have any idea how much an elephant drinks?

Scott Weidensaul

Clear-cutting was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning entire countries into grazing land. Whole rain forests had been consumed, reduced from millions of interlocking species to a bunch of cows eating grass, a vast web of life traded for cheap hamburgers. Look, we're not clear-cutting. All we're doing is pulling out the garbage that the Rusties left behend, David said. It just takes a little surgery to do it.

They've got to tell us what is necessary to ensure the future health of the river system.

Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess brings the refreshment of surprise. In either case life as a spacetime expert, however long, is more fun!

The only way to save money is not to spend it.

One in every four species of mammals (1,141 of the 5,487 mammalian species on Earth) is threatened with extinction.

Say no to asphalt!

Man's view of the gorilla illustrates in a dramatic way the change from slaughter to conservation that distinguishes modern attitudes to wildlife. To nineteenth-century explorers and naturalists gorillas were evil.

When you defile the pleasant streams And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams And cast your spittle in God's face.

Ecology is boring for the same reason that destruction is fun.

You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.

But we have to look after mother nature so she can look after us - the water, the soil, the air and all the life within it.

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

The ocean is our life support system. No blue, no green. It's really a miracle that we have got a place that works in our favor.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.

That's what people do when they find a special place that wild and full of life, they trample it to death.

We're putting everything in the ocean on a plastic diet.

There are, in short, a multitude of ways for trash to escape and plastic to go missing. But there is only one ultimate end point for this wild trash: the greatest future, the biggest surface, the deepest chasm, the broadest desert and the largest burial ground on the planet. It's the ocean.