Quotes About Conservation

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.

Any fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

After the last tree is felled, Christ will come back.

They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum.

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.