I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not... — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness… — Margaret Murie Copy Share Image
The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. — Louis Bacon Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing… — Kevin Richardson Copy Share Image
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down. — Paul Johnson 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
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
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
You find that our great conservation heroes tend to be people who had a radical engagement with nature. That involvement... breeds in… — Steven Rinella 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
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
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
“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
“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
If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. — Alan Clark Copy Share Image
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I prefer to hunt where I understand the conservation history and the complexities of what's happening on the ground. — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
“Can there be any question that the human is the least harmonious beast in the forest and the creature most toxic to… — Randy Thornhorn Copy Share Image
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands. — George William Norris Copy Share Image
I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
“I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. — Sue Kelly Copy Share Image
Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
