Quotes About Conservation

I'd love to see some animals in their natural habitat - as long as those animals are being well looked after.

I love scuba diving. I'm an avid diver. And, there's this beautiful world that's more incredible than any CGI film we could ever make, that we're destroying, for what? It's heartbreaking to me.

Seriously, like Steve Jobs playing the orchestra,*8 my orchestra is this land. When you're here, surrounded by it, connecting to it on a visceral level, you realize that that connection is the only way to save our planet. That's been the problem all along, destroying the natural world because we've created so much distance from it.

We've gotta take care of our environment so it can take care of us.

I like seals.

But the fatigue of physical dysfunction, I came to recognize, is as different from normal sleep deprivation as COVID-19 is from the common cold. It was not caused by needing sleep, I thought, but by my body's cellular conviction that it needed to conserve energy in order to fix whatever was wrong. The feeling erased my will, the sense of identity that drives most of us. The worst part of my fatigue was the loss of an intact sense of self.

Beatrix Potter

Hemos visto ganar y conservar mucho más dinero a «personas comunes» que estaban temperamentalmente bien dotadas para el proceso de inversión que a otras personas que carecían de esta buena predisposición anímica, aunque tuviesen un gran conocimiento de las finanzas, la contabilidad y la historia del mercado de valores.

Todo el mundo debe conservar parte de su patrimonio en el seguro refugio del dinero en metálico.

The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

As an environmental scientist, I think our first need is to feed and shelter and nurture. That has always required the exploitation of plant life, and it always will.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

I love what I do for a living and even if I wasn't getting paid for it I would still pursue an active, outdoors lifestyle, researching animals and looking after them.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

If we can find a way to keep floodwater in reserve and to use it when it's needed, it will be a double boon.

Fish banks are areas we set aside without fishing, reserves where we allow marine life to come back.

Decades of eco-terrorism have effectively shut down our national forests from responsible management.

Let's shut down the EPA.

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.

If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.