Quotes About Preservation

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance.

I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?