What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There… — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Water can be a blessing or a curse. Too often we make conservation about saving a whale, a coral reef or a… — Alexandra Cousteau Copy Share Image
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have… — Mindy Baha El Din Copy Share Image
The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents… — George B. Hartzog Jr Copy Share Image
Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird… — Frank N. Ikard Copy Share Image
I've been through legislation creating a dozen national parks, and there's always the same pattern. When you first propose a park, and… — Mo Udall Copy Share Image
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“We forest officers, who acquiesced in the extinguishment of the bear, knew a local rancher who had plowed up a dagger engraved… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for… — Joe Roman Copy Share Image
“To make good environmental decision, we must stop focusing on trying to remove or undo human influence, on turning back time or… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain… — Chico Mendes Copy Share Image
Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
We need to invest in clean energy technologies. We need to rush them to market while rebuilding our energy networks intelligently. And… — Jayni Chase Copy Share Image
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and… — David Jeremiah Barron Copy Share Image
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
If the chief party, whether it be the people, or the army, or the nobility, which you think most useful and of… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund… — Ron Kind Copy Share Image
“But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
Walmart and other big-boxers could become the center of gravity for the conservation of goods, employ people with actual know-how, and develop… — Lisa Gansky Copy Share Image
“That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We choose the national park idea because it's really the highest form of protection for landscapes that exists under current law, especially… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to… — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.… — Dustin Clare Copy Share Image
“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp…… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
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