Quotes About Conservation

Leechfield Will Grease The Planet!

All important ideas must include the trees,the mountains, and the rivers.

If you can hear the trees in their easy hours of course you can also hear them later, crying out at the sawmill.

antelopes, wild hogs, and gorillas.

Mountain gorillas live together in families. The leader of the family is a large male called a "silverback" because he has silver fur on his back and shoulders. Gorillas do not hunt other animals. They mainly eat the plant growth of the forest. They are known to be shy and gentle giants.

Dr. Grime carries a Tide stain pen. He does not use his own spit. Art conservators do. "We make cotton swabs on bamboo sticks and moisten the swab in our mouths," says Andrea Chevalier, senior paintings conservator with the Intermuseum Conservation Association.

Home economists were urged to approach teachers and lunch planners. "Let's do more than say 'How do you do' to variety meats; let's make friends with them!" chirps Jessie Alice Cline in the February 1943 Practical Home Economics. The War Food Administration pulled together a Food Conservation Education brochure with suggested variety-meat essay themes ("My Adventures in Eating New Foods").

Qureshi adds that the other problem with government-controlled culling—referring here to the shooting of wild boar and nilgais—is that while it is permissible to kill them, the law forbids eating the meat. "And here"—he means India—"you don't kill a species for the sake of killing. Only a psychopath does that.

Mr Wallace is sitting beside a dying elk. If elk could scream, he reflects, the woods would have fewer hunters.

In the same way, one might well ask what good it does to keep the elephants alive at all if their sole value on earth is a hunter's fee. Why even bother if we think so little of these creatures, after all that they have endured at the hands of man, that we are now willing to let them be farmed and administered in this nice, systematic way by the very people who have already done them so much evil?

From Africa to the western United States to the story of the rainforest of the Amazon, it is the fate of many wild creatures either to be unwanted by men or wanted too much, despised as a means to progress or desired as a means to progress - beloved and brutalized all at once, like the elephant and whale and dolphin.

I am out of ideas and need to conserve my energy so I can freak out more efficiently.

You can't save trees by ignoring people

What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

Modern US consumers now get to taste less than 1 percent of the vegetable varieties that were grown here a century ago. Those old-timers now lurk only in backyard gardens and on farms that specialize in direct sales--if they survive at all. Many heirlooms have been lost entirely.

You can't save the whales by eating whales, but paradoxically, you can help save rare, domesticated foods by eating them. They're kept alive by gardeners who have a taste for them, and farmers who know they'll be able to sell them. The consumer becomes a link in this conservation chain by seeking out the places where heirloom vegetables are sold, taking them home, whacking them up with knives, and learning to incorporate their exceptional tastes into personal and family expectations.

If the real human environment in developed countries today is third-growth monocultured "forests," tar-sand petroleum, cow-burnt grasslands, and smog-like clouds of microplastics floating in oceans where fish once thrived, then human cultures need to distinguish between sentimentality about loss and the imperative to survive. They need to establish a more relevant politics than the competitive politics of nation-states. And to found economies built not on profit but on conservation.

A clearcut is not the outward sign of a healthy economy but of an indifference to life.

the battle in defense of natural resources.

ethnobotanist

The best way to increase wolves in America, rabbits in Australia, and snakes in India is to pay a bounty on their scalps. Then every patriot goes to raising them.

I rap for the trees...for the trees have no tongues.

A dirty secret of the conservation movement is that wilderness preserves are set up only after indigenous peoples have been decimated or forcibly removed from them, including the national parks in the United States and the Serengeti in East Africa.

Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.