Quotes About Conservation

Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.

There is something nobly simple and pure in a taste for the cultivation of forest trees.

From the explicit prohibition against the destruction of fruit trees, our sages deduced that it is all the more forbidden to destroy the fruits themselves.

Forests are the world's air-conditioning system-the lungs of the planet-and we are on the verge of switching it off.

If we don't preserve forest habitat for spotted owls, then soon we won't have trees to refresh the air we breathe. And we're realizing that this applies to social ecology, as well.

They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money.

Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

Sustainable development: Holding our world in trust for our children

The future will be green, or not at all. This truth lies at the heart of humankind's most pressing challenge: to learn to live in harmony with the Earth on a genuinely sustainable basis.

It disturbed me that people would come to the mountains and regard the place as if it was somehow unreal, as if no action of theirs could have an affect on the landscape.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We're beginning to think it's not really our business. We're beginning to act as if it's not there any more.

Conserving national resources was a sensible wish; it became a prescient necessity when the US entered the war six years later. But the desire to make the country great again may have appeared a tired political slogan even then. The belief of a better past is clearly a compelling one, but whether the past was better in the days of Taylor and Roosevelt in 1911 or in the mind of Donald Trump in 2016 is difficult to say.

You can reduce environmentalism to six words: don't burn coal, don't eat meat. The rest is detail.

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics.

The planet Earth was a gift to us, we should have taken care of it with love.

You can't love nature with a gun

We need to figure out how to have the things we love, and not destroy the world.

I don't need to make money destroying my environment. Why don't I just love it and figure out a way to be more sustainable?

People will protect what they love.

If you can't excite people about wildlife, how can you convince them to love, cherish, and protect our wildlife and the environment they live in?