Conservation Quotes · Page 8

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

— Edward Norton

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can…

— George Schaller

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for…

— Edward Norton

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

— John James Audubon

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

— Gale Norton

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

— Gifford Pinchot

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if…

— Mindy Baha El Din

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities…

— Samuel Johnson

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise,…

— Terence McKenna

Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where…

— Frederick Lenz

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much…

— Tahir Shah

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest…

— Derrick Jensen

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or…

— E. F. Schumacher

“The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed…

— Ian Douglas-Hamilton

“construction of backcountry roads for timber and mining interests, then charge hikers to park on these same roads. This author (Harris) and…

— John Robinson

The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency…

— J. Horace McFarland

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically…

— Aldo Leopold

The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of…

— Terry Tempest Williams

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise…

— Adolf Hitler

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

— Gary Morris

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

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves…

— Anonymous

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

— Norm Dicks

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

— Aldo Leopold

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one…

— Arne Jacobsen

I was the environmentalist of the year for the New York League of Conservation Voters.

— Tom Suozzi

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

— Allan Gregg

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

— Wallace Stegner

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

— Gifford Pinchot

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

— John Muir

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

— Isaac Asimov

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

— Aldo Leopold

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

— Rachel Carson

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

— Naveen Jain