It's when the conservationists became environmentalists…

When you look at farmers and ranchers, for example, they are our first environmentalists. They are our first conservationists. When you look at the…

— Scott Pruitt

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

— David R. Brower

“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists… The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those…

— David Baron

If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns…

— Wendell Berry

However destructive may be the policies of the government and the methods and products of the corporations, the root of the problem is always…

— Wendell Berry

In Central Virginia, farmers are some of our strongest conservationists. They understand the complex ecosystems they inhabit, and they cherish the role they play…

— Abigail Spanberger

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

— Jane Goodall

Why should conservationists have a positive interest in... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.

— Wendell Berry

Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily,…

— Wendell Berry

“Too many land users and too many conservationists seem to have accepted the doctrine that the availability of goods is determined by the availability…

— Wendell Berry

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need…

— Paul Weyrich

To the extent that we consume, in our present circumstances, we are guilty. To the extent that we guilty consumers are conservationists, we are…

— Wendell Berry

“To some conservationists, the Colorado River is the preeminent symbol of everything mankind has done wrong—a harbinger of a squalid and deserved fate. To…

— Marc Reisner

If, on the other hand, conservationists are willing to insist on having the best food, produced in the best way, as close to their…

— Wendell Berry

Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition…

— Louis Bacon