Conservation Quotes · Page 7

You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest…

— Douglas Malloch

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

— Klaus Topfer

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

— Amory Lovins

A national park is not a playground. It's a sanctuary for nature and for humans who will accept nature on nature's own…

— Michael Frome

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

— Ian McHarg

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

— Paul Gillmor

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

— James Lipton

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

— Adlai Stevenson

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers,…

— Dian Fossey

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable…

— Gifford Pinchot

If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land,…

— Hugh Hammond Bennett

We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but…

— Indira Gandhi

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or…

— E. F. Schumacher

This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors…

— John F. Carlson

“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home…

— Wendell Berry

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

— Joseph Guth

The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the…

— Nuno Oliveira

Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely…

— Jim Butcher

Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead…

— Natalie Angier

You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted…

— Pierre Bourdieu

And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];…

— Humphry Davy

The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically…

— Aldo Leopold

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

— William Howard Taft

For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's…

— Herman Melville

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

— Ted Nugent

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

— Aldo Leopold

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

— Herbert Hoover

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

— Steve Irwin

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

— Christopher Lasch

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

— Jack L. Chalker

I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on…

— Alain Bombard

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

— David Attenborough

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

— Jeff Bridges

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

— Aldo Leopold

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and…

— Gale Norton

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

— Veerappa Moily

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

— Gifford Pinchot