Quotes About Conservation

To keep something wild is far more difficult than to preserve it.

Nature repeats herself more than one would imagine. The sea has infinitely more variety.

It is false to suppose that so long as Scripture and doctrine are preserved, disciplinary and liturgical tradition can safely be modernised at will.

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

He knew the terrible tales of sea otters choking on polyethylene rings from beer six-packs; of swans and gulls strangled by nylon nets and fishing lines; of a green sea turtle in Hawaii dead with a pocket comb, a foot of nylon rope, and a toy truck wheel lodged in its gut. His personal worst

Masai and elephants. The rest is dust.

I care a lot about the environment. I really do. I practice it in my personal life.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it's just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.

David Attenborough's 'Life' series is phenomenal. He's a wonderful modern soothsayer.

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Forest management is a pillar of rural communities.

One of my rules is: If it's good for the planet, it's usually good for your wallet.

Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop deeper, longer term, more profitable relationships with their customers.

To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

Only people who lack wisdom would say that a project should be pursued even if it leads to wanton destruction of forests.

Having grown up on Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo, I had become increasingly incensed by the seemingly mad and wanton destruction of the world's third largest and most biodiverse rainforest, the Borneo Jungle.

Polar bears did very well in the warmer times. They didn't die out at all; they didn't die out in the last 10,000 years, nor during the previous interglacial, nor the one before that. So, they're just used as a deceitful heartthrob; you know, to pluck your heartstrings because the polar bears might die out.

Only by planting trees, we will be able to overcome global warming.