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Quotes About Conservation

We really kind of pioneered a technology here at Fossil Rim where we use ultrasound on both our white rhinos and black rhinos and we can even document pregnancy in animals at about 30 days.
~ Bruce Williams
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
~ Buckminster Fuller
The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live
~ Vandana Shiva
We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.
~ Luis Fortuno
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
~ Ted Nugent
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
~ Gifford Pinchot
When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind
~ Gerald Durrell
I have been governor every now and then, but I am a forester all the time.
~ Gifford Pinchot
Every time I have some moment on a seashore, or in the mountains, or sometimes in a quiet forest, I think this is why the environment has to be preserved.
~ Bill Bradley
I think when a surfer becomes a surfer, it's almost like an obligation to be an environmentalist at the same time.
~ Kelly Slater
Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.
~ Paula Poundstone
Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.
~ Sylvia Earle
Indonesia, and Russia are a few of the countries where you could spot a wild tiger today. However, you would have to be quite lucky to do so, because wherever they
~ Anna Claybourne
It became a requirement of those in hazardous professions, or those with highly desirable dominant characteristics of intelligence or physical perfection, to donate sperm and ova to what became known as the Race Conservation Agency.
~ Anne McCaffrey
Vik] Okay, I'll drop the subject. But if you ever do that to me again, I'll stab you in the penis, which I'm sure will hurt." [Syn] "Yeah, it would." [Vik] "Good. Now I'm powering down for a bit to conserve my power.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
One tree isn't more important than the entire forest, Joe. You taught me that. Remember? Political pruning. (Syd) Yeah, but every forest is always destroyed one tree at a time. You take care of those individual trees because each one that falls brings you closer to deforestation. You only prune what's rotten. You don't cut down a good tree for no reason. (Joe)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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.
~ E. O. Wilson
It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
~ Edward Abbey
To be an environmentalist is to care about the environment and care about life on planet Earth.
~ Sharon Gannon
The most important part is to take on the challenge of protecting the ocean as if your life depends on it - because it does.
~ Sylvia Earle
We are depleting this immense diversity and abundance of life, and it matters tremendously for the future of the planet.
~ Sylvia Earle
The damages of our present agriculture all come from the determination to use the life of the soil as if it were an extractable resource like coal.
~ Wendell Berry
The oceans themselves are threatened and life itself, therefore, and the planet is threatened because of it.
~ John F. Kerry
How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?
~ Joseph Wood Krutch