Conservation Quotes · Page 6

“Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American…

— Bill McKibben

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

— E. O. Wilson

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

— Dick Cheney

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

— James Lovelock

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

— J. D. Hayworth

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

— Walther Bothe

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all…

— Theodore Roosevelt

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil…

— Richard Branson

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one…

— Rachel Carson

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and…

— Jimmy Carter

The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer…

— Joel Sartore

The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what…

— Ursula Goodenough

One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have…

— Jerome Ringo

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov.…

— David Minge

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the…

— Gifford Pinchot

This estimate only represents a single point in time. Further research will tell us if this number represents a healthy, viable population,…

— Narin Raksmei PhD

I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing…

— Richard Dawkins

Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting…

— Amy Ridenour

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are…

— Steve Irwin

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

— Karen Hughes

The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group strongly supports green-line policies, because the only way to attract top level employees and their families is…

— Carl Guardino

I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best…

— Aldo Leopold

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

— Sigmar Gabriel

A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the…

— Aldo Leopold

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the…

— Steven Chu

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is…

— Henry Ford

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth.

— Will Rogers

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

— Princess Michael of Kent

“If you wipe a dirty spot off a wall you've removed it, but you haven't eliminated it. You're stuck with a dirty…

— Billy Apple

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

— Rachel Carson

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

— Aldo Leopold

“Ek is meer bekommerd dat daar nie meer bome vir papier is nie as wat ek bekommerd is oor die toekoms van…

— Eleanor Baker

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

— Jerome Ringo

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've…

— Terri Irwin

The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

— Steve Irwin

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

— Anton Chekhov

“Conservation,” Pinchot famously wrote, “means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

— Douglas Brinkley