Nothing is more conservative than conservation

“The first imperative of a true conservative is CONSERVATION; conservation of air, land, water and living resources. If your issue doesn't meet that criteria…

— Brenna Ewing

It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative…

— Karen Hughes

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

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion.…

— George Schaller

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

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

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

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

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

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

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

— Nancy Newhall

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

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

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

“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable place we…

— Joseph Guth