Quotes About Conservation

From high school, you can see my Sierra Club card - I've been a member since 1979. That gives you an indication of early interest.

My fear is that we are losing sight of how much we depend on the EPA to protect not just our environment but the people who live in it.

NUMA is basically trying to preserve our maritime heritage by finding lost shipwrecks of historical significance before they are gone.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.

How did we start worrying about climate? In 1948 a conservationist named Fairfield Osborn wrote a book titled Our Plundered Planet (the first jeremiad of its kind) and, with Laurance Rockefeller, founded the Conservation Foundation in New York. In 1958 Charles Keeling began his epic project measuring the atmospheric concentration of CO 2.

Osborn's Conservation Foundation assembled the first climate change conference in 1963; this resulted in a paper, "Implications of Rising Carbon Dioxide Content of the Atmosphere." According to Spencer Weart's Discovery of Global Warming (2004), "Their report warned that the doubling of CO 2 projected

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife, are in fact plans to protect man.

June 23 is World Giraffe Day

The photographer is now charging real beasts, beleaguered and too rare to kill. Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature - tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people. When we are afraid, we shoot. But when we are nostalgic, we take pictures.

nature has ceased to be what it always had been—what people needed protection from. Now nature—tamed, endangered, mortal—needs to be protected from people.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.

you never truly win a conservation battle - you just win the right to fight another day. Like an alcoholic, the environment is never saved. It always needs saving.

In 1960, Joy wrote of her experiences raising Elsa in the bestselling book Born Free which was adapted into an Academy award-winning film. In 1980 Joy was tragically murdered on her reserve, but her conservation work continues through the Elsemere Trust.

Los cambios son meramente cosméticos para que opere el principio lampedusiano: 'cambiarlo todo para que nada cambie.

It was going against what I'd been learning here in Luna, that all living things have the right to be alive.

That's why activists go in and try to slow down the logging. They want some trees to be left standing by the time the regulatory agencies show up or the courts give a ruling.

Before computers, telephone lines and television connect us, we all share the same air, the same oceans, the same mountains and rivers. We are all equally responsible for protecting them.

The world needs more trees.

I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.

In Maine, there is a deeply ingrained sense that you can always get a little more use out of something.

It's funny: being green to me was ingrained because my parents were always trying to save money, save water, turn off the lights, or arrange a carpool. I don't think my parents even know what it means to be green, but they were.

Giving my contribution to protect and respect the environment, as well as its inhabitants, makes me feel happy.

There is such a big chunk of me that is David Attenborough. I think he is my biggest inspiration.

All insulation is environmentally friendly. Some installation has better environmental credentials, but what matters is the energy it saves.