Conservation Quotes · Page 5

“In a virtually perfect world, reality still remains an inconvenient truth.”

— Phil Pauley

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement…

— Wallace Stegner

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

— Jimmy Carter

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

— Ted Nugent

It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer…

— Jerry Adler

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

— Aldo Leopold

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral…

— Aldo Leopold

Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth…

— Ian Somerhalder

I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local…

— Ted Danson

The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests…

— Ian Cohen

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized…

— Henry David Thoreau

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your…

— Simon Barnes

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans -…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive…

— George Aiken

Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in…

— Will Rogers

[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

“Pick a leader who will make their citizens proud. One who will stir the hearts of the people, so that the sons…

— Suzy Kassem

“Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we heavily advertise the park, enticing…

— Mary E. Reed

“A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at…

— Gloria Ng

“Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen…

— Carl Sagan

And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even…

— Taner Edis

The primary threat to nature and people today comes from centralising and monopolising power and control. Not until diversity is made the…

— Vandana Shiva

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

— Paul Watson

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.

— Aldo Leopold

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

— Jairam Ramesh

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men

— Gifford Pinchot

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

— Edward M. Lerner

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

— Gifford Pinchot

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

— Edward Norton

Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

— Fabien Cousteau

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

— Gale Norton

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

— Spencer Abraham

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

— Aldo Leopold

There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of…

— Oliver Lodge

“The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.”

— Shannon L. Alder