Quotes About Conservation

Half the oxygen we breathe emanates from microscopic phytoplankton sloshing around the surface of the ocean. After literally billions of years of performing that essential, priceless service, those vital organisms now must swim and feed and survive in a sea of plastic soup. Figuring out what's up with those organisms is, Goldstein suggests, a pretty vital matter. If we are inadvertently killing them off, the result could be far less visible, but even more devastating, than deforestation.

Refuse. Because every time you say yes, you are inviting more to be made. You have created demand for more waste. So we refuse all of that.

Explicitly connecting how people describe the natural world in different ways is a top conservation priority.

We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors.

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

The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves.

There is no solution available, I assure you, to save Earth's biodiversity other than the preservation of natural environments in reserves large enough to maintain wild populations sustainably. Only Nature can serve as the planetary ark.

A typical battlefield of this struggle is Hawaii, America's most deceptively beautiful state. For most residents and visitors, it seems an unspoiled island paradise. In actuality it is a killing field of biological diversity. When

I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better quality of life if we conserve half of the planet for nature than if we consume nature entirely.

if we save the living world, we will also automatically save the physical world, because in order to achieve the first we must also achieve the second. But if we save only the physical world, which appears our present inclination, we will ultimately lose them both.

The agent causing the most immediate damage to species in fresh water are dams, great boosters of local economies but unfortunately chief demons of aquatic habitat destruction. Their

The original level of biodiversity is not likely to be regained in any period of time that has meaning for the human mind.

While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure, for our own safety. While preserving our own deep history, it will, if we choose to let it, continue on its own trajectory through evolutionary time. By thus maintaining two parallel worlds on the planet, humanity will ensure the survival and continued advanced of the rest of life, and of ourselves.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

I still remember a dying seal looking at me in mute appeal as if to say, "You people are supposed to protect us. You are the trustees of our world. Why aren't you doing your job?

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Rien ne se cree, rien ne se perd

Dans la nature rien ne se crée, rien ne se perd, tout change. In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, and the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

Nature does not require, by and large, any protection; it is largely the people who need prevention from their own selfish nature.

From day one of my administration, we have been committed to ensuring that New Hampshire's natural beauty - which is critical to our quality of life - is conserved and enhanced for the next generation.

If you can't buy a hybrid car, your first question should be, 'What is the fuel economy of this car?'

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.