Quotes About Conservation

What a tragic irony, that the more we understand of biology, the less we have of it to learn from and enjoy. What will be the legacy of this new century - to cherish and to protect Nature or to see butterflies and zebras and much more vanish into legend like the thylacine, moa and dodo?

I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.

Time was when education moved toward soil, not away from it.

I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events.

I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.

I do everything I can for wild animals because they have such a bloody awful time.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

There really wasn't an environmental movement 30 years ago. The Sierra Club national office in 1969 consisted of one full-time volunteer.

The destruction of the earth's environment is the human rights challenge of our time.

I was interested in the environment from when I was a little kid. I spent most of my time hunting and fishing and kayaking.

Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the time the Constitution was written?

Only after the last tree has been cut down. Only after the last river has been poisoned. Only after the last fish has been caught. Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten.

One out of every five mammals on the face of the earth is a bat.

After living at sea for twenty years or more, the female loggerhead returns to the beach of her birth to nest. She travels hundreds of miles through the Atlantic, her three-hundred-pound, eddish-brown carapace filled with hundreds of fertile eggs.

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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased—thus do we refute entropy. Stated another way: Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

Apparently it's okay for eagles to hunt. But it's not okay for people to enjoy it.

Get over your aggression, as Trees are also part of nature, when you don't cut their branches, people start cutting the whole trees.

I am not Iron-Man, I am Forest-Man!

Don't poison a river whose fish you might need tomorrow.

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.

In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair.

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas; rest your spirit in her solitary places.