Quotes About Conservation

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

You can grow without destroying the things that you love.

If we love the sea as much as we claim to we'll do everything we possibly can to keep it healthy. Otherwise we might as well take up golf.

I love people who have died trying to save wildlife. When I see that passion, that gives me hope.

Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.

Took up all the trees put them in a tree museum Charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them You don't know what you've got til it's gone. Took paradise and put up a parking lot.

El ritmo actual de destrucción de la biodiversidad es comparable e incluso superior al de las perturbaciones ambientales que produjeron las grandes extinciones en masa (incluida la que acabó con los dinosaurios).

En los últimos doce mil años se ha perdido aproximadamente el 50 por 100 de la diversidad global y el desmoronamiento de los ecosistemas tropicales es una realidad predecible para este siglo, en tanto que su recuperación, de acuerdo con los datos expuestos, llevará varios millones de años.

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste.

Furthermore, it is observed in general that the smaller the population size of a species is, the more vulnerable it will be to extinction.

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

Protecting Americans from harm goes beyond police and national defense. It's imperative that we not destroy the commons, the physical environment on which we rely.

My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue.

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Luckily, water, though finite, is infinitely renewable.

One of the things that's always amazed me about people who attack me, saying I'm opposed to renewable energy, is I'm pretty sure I'm the only Republican who had an energy bill vetoed by a Republican governor.

We will work on maximizing the introduction of energy conservation and renewable energy, while lowering our dependence on nuclear power generation as much as possible.

We need to pay our dues to live on this earth; we need to pay the rent, and I'm doing that with the work we are carrying out here in Patagonia.