Conservation Quotes · Page 5

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the…

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

— Rachel Carson

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

— Aldo Leopold

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you've removed it, but you haven't eliminated it. You're stuck with a dirty…

— Billy Apple

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.

— Will Rogers

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is…

— Henry Ford

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

— James Lovelock

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise…

— Albert J. Nock

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain…

— Chico Mendes

We need to invest in clean energy technologies. We need to rush them to market while rebuilding our energy networks intelligently. And…

— Jayni Chase

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the…

— Paul Watson

Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop…

— Lisa Gansky

“But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are…

— Emma Marris

We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially…

— Douglas Tompkins

The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and…

— Steven Chu

I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed…

— Kelly Slater

For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it…

— Frederick Soddy

The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our…

— Gary Morris

Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a…

— Romulus Whitaker

“We stood by and allowed what happened to the Great Plains a century ago, the destruction of one of the ecological wonders…

— Dan Flores

We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age…

— Ezra Pound

“We rich nations, for that is what we are, have an obligation not only to the poor nations, but to all the…

— Moss Cass

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil…

— Richard Branson

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

— Sigmar Gabriel

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

— Walther Bothe

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

— J. D. Hayworth

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

— E. O. Wilson

“The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.”

— Shannon L. Alder

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American…

— Bill McKibben

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

— Aldo Leopold

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of…

— Oliver Lodge

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

— Gale Norton

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

— Fabien Cousteau

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

— Spencer Abraham

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

— Edward M. Lerner