Conservation Quotes · Page 7

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

— Adlai Stevenson

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

— Jerome Ringo

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've…

— Terri Irwin

“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

— Douglas Brinkley

The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

— Anton Chekhov

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

— Steve Irwin

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

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

— Indira Gandhi

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and…

— Jimmy Carter

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer…

— Joel Sartore

One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have…

— Jerome Ringo

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov.…

— David Minge

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what…

— Ursula Goodenough

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can…

— Prince Philip

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our…

— Theodore Roosevelt

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];…

— Humphry Davy

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the…

— Vandana Shiva

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing…

— Richard Dawkins

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are…

— Steve Irwin

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which…

— Henry David Thoreau

Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting…

— Amy Ridenour

The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the…

— E. O. Wilson

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest…

— Douglas Malloch

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

— Aldo Leopold

“There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of…

— milton friedman

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

— Herbert Hoover

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

— Christopher Lasch

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

— Steve Irwin

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's…

— Herman Melville

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

— William Howard Taft

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

— Ted Nugent

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

— Jeff Bridges

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

— Aldo Leopold

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on…

— Alain Bombard

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

— Jack L. Chalker

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

— David Attenborough

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and…

— Gale Norton

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

— Veerappa Moily