To develop a national park is to not have one.

“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