Quotes About Conservation

Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

Electrify your life! With heating and cooling, cooking and travel, and you will be doing a lot to help the future of this planet. There is no need to burn anything anymore.

Today, cardinal-flower is a legally protected species and should never be picked or removed from the wild.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

One waxes pessimistic? Not so much Ã¢â'¬Â¦ There is a pessimism about land which, after it has been with you a long time, becomes merely factual. Men increase; country suffers. Though I sign up with organizations that oppose the process, I sign without great hope.… Islands of wildlife and native flora may be saved, as they should be, but the big, sloppy, rich, teeming spraddle will go. It always has.

The Grow Biointensive method is especially important for areas with scarce water.

Step lightly upon the earth, but leave a little ray of hope.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

You cannot talk of preserving environment when the majority of the citizens are depending on charcol or wood for most of their energy source.

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, 'This is the way it was.'

He said, "Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It's not, if you're mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

Take nothing but photographs, leave nothing but footprints.

The strongest argument for gene editing cane toads, house mice, and ship rats is also the simplest: what's the alternative? Rejecting such technologies as unnatural isn't going to bring nature back. The choice is not between what is and what was, but between what is and what will be, which, often enough, is nothing.

These days every wild place has, to one degree or another, been cut into and cut off.

If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.

Of the world's eight species of bears, six are categorized either as "vulnerable" to extinction or "endangered.

Human activity has transformed between a third and a half of the land surface of the planet. • Most of the world's major rivers have been dammed or diverted. • Fertilizer plants produce more nitrogen than is fixed naturally by all terrestrial ecosystems. • Fisheries remove more than a third of the primary production of the oceans' coastal waters. • Humans use more than half of the world's readily accessible fresh water runoff.

Today, amphibians enjoy the dubious distinction of being the world's most endangered class of animals; it's been calculated that the group's extinction rate could be as much as forty-five thousand times higher than the background rate.

Every hour and a half, Louisiana sheds another football field's worth of land.

coral cover in the Caribbean has in recent decades declined by close to eighty percent.

every year more non-indigenous species of mammals, birds, amphibians, turtles, lizards, and snakes are brought into the U.S. than the country has native species of these groups.

Since the 1930s, Louisiana has shrunk by more than two thousand square miles.

It demonstrates, he has written, that humans "are capable of driving virtually any large mammal species extinct, even though they are also capable of going to great lengths to guarantee that they do not.