The first imperative of a true conservative is…

“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled…

— Emma Marris

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

— John Green

Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the…

— Patrick Rothfuss

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

— Steve Irwin

We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels,…

— Peter Roskam

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

— Amy Ridenour

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

— Nancy Newhall

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

— Aldo Leopold

When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

— John Drinkwater

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

— Richard Branson

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

— Peter Calthorpe

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last…

— Wallace Stegner

There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including…

— Gaylord Nelson

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

— Theodore Roosevelt