In Central Virginia, farmers are some of our strongest…

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily,…

— Wendell Berry

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

— Wendell Berry

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition…

— Louis Bacon

“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists… The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those…

— David Baron

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns…

— Wendell Berry

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always…

— Wendell Berry

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

— Jane Goodall

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

— David R. Brower

“Too many land users and too many conservationists seem to have accepted the doctrine that the availability of goods is determined by the availability…

— Wendell Berry

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need…

— Paul Weyrich

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists, we are…

— Wendell Berry

“To some conservationists, the Colorado River is the preeminent symbol of everything mankind has done wrong—a harbinger of a squalid and deserved fate. To…

— Marc Reisner

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their…

— Wendell Berry

When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the…

— Scott Pruitt

Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare is intimately…

— Norman Myers