Conservation Quotes

“Put on a sweater.”

— Jimmy Carter

Conservation is now a dead word.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

— John Muir

“We have the responsibility to care for the ocean as it cares for us”

— Suzanne van der Veeken

Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy.

— Douglas Tompkins

In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen!

— Emily Dickinson

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

— Nancy Newhall

“​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”

— Donella Meadows

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

— George William Norris

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set…

— Douglas Tompkins

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

— Sue Kelly

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

— Sylvia Earle

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in…

— Ian Somerhalder

“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another…

— Edward Abbey

I prefer to hunt where I understand the conservation history and the complexities of what's happening on the ground.

— Steven Rinella

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a…

— George Carlin

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable…

— Gifford Pinchot

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers,…

— Dian Fossey

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the…

— Gifford Pinchot

This estimate only represents a single point in time. Further research will tell us if this number represents a healthy, viable population,…

— Narin Raksmei PhD

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but…

— Indira Gandhi

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp……

— Henry David Thoreau

“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to…

— Mark Carwardine

There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.…

— Dustin Clare

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the…

— Edward Abbey

I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we…

— Thomas Friedman

I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and…

— Mo Udall

There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have…

— Mindy Baha El Din

“No one in the world needs a Rhino horn but a Rhino.”

— Paul Oxton

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

— Darryl Cherney

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.

— Robert Dold

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

— Russell Kirk

“Law of Conservation of Love: Love can neither be created nor destroyed.”

— Ashraf Ghazali

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

— Aldo Leopold