Quotes About Conservation

The key is trying to go quick without killing your tyres.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

I'm not going to throw haymakers the whole fight; I'll gas out.

I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.

Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.

I really have a deep sense of caring about the air that we breathe and the water that we drink. I want to be able to say that I was trying to protect that. And I also care deeply about children. My children, all children. And I care deeply about giving back.

I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it's all doom and gloom and nothing can be done.

I'd like to see the Amazon rainforests before they're all gone, and also the Galapagos - that's another one I'd like to do. I'd love to go diving in those areas. Basically, places, like, that are kind of going away, and I'd like to see them before they all become condos and high-rises.

I'm very frugal, so I don't like to shop because I'm afraid everything is going away.

A dash of frugality is a good thing for everyone.

Maybe there is a sort of law of conservation of misery that insures an average quantum value of unhappiness for every human being, and all we can really do is spread it in one direction or another?

La investigación es una necesidad continua y la savia de la buena conservación.

Not to cleave to our own virtues, nor become as a whole a victim to any of our specialties, to our hospitality for instance, which is the danger of dangers for highly developed and wealthy souls, who deal prodigally, almost indifferently with themselves, and push the virtue of liberality so far that it becomes a vice. One must know how TO CONSERVE ONESELF—the best test of independence.

la nueva forma de incuria es conservarlo todo.

la troublante indifférence du coeur humain à l'universalité du malheur; une indifférence qui n'était pas calcul, ni même égoïsme, qui n'était peut-être pas autre chose que l'instinct de conservation, oreilles bouchées, yeux fermés, de survivre dans sa pauvreté quotidienne.

I used to swim with these beavers in a beaver pond when I was 10. I went back when I was 11 and found there were no more beavers. I found that trappers had taken them all, so I became quite angry, and that winter I began to walk the trap lines and free animals from the traps and destroy the traps.

Hedgehogs need somewhere to hibernate through the winter, but also a place that they can lie out at during the day. So have a few places around your garden that are a bit wild, maybe a log pile, potentially even a hedgehog home, all of which are going to be prime real estate for one of these little guys.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

If we wipe out the fish, the oceans are going to die. If the oceans die, we die. We can't live on this planet with a dead ocean.