Conservation Quotes · Page 8

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

— Norm Dicks

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves…

— Anonymous

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

— Edward Norton

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can…

— George Schaller

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for…

— Edward Norton

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

— John James Audubon

I was the environmentalist of the year for the New York League of Conservation Voters.

— Tom Suozzi

We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding…

— Peter Roskam

Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands…

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

“When we flood our creative problem-solving mind with the endorphins of gratitude, we are open to receiving the spectacular solutions that are…

— Natalie Pace

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because…

— Sylvia Earle

They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life…

— Richard Dean Anderson

Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can…

— Sigurd F. Olson

Nature conservation is not a luxury, it is a necessity! It not wise or sensible to continue to destroy your environment if…

— Mindy Baha El Din

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can…

— Prince Philip

The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency…

— J. Horace McFarland

The creative process ignites our imagination, and I believe that that same imagination is what will propel us forward with issues of…

— Terry Tempest Williams

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise…

— Adolf Hitler

The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the…

— E. O. Wilson

“construction of backcountry roads for timber and mining interests, then charge hikers to park on these same roads. This author (Harris) and…

— John Robinson

“The very desire to preserve animals was a subjective sentiment of fail in the animal's intrinsic worth. It was a feeling possessed…

— Ian Douglas-Hamilton

If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show…

— Donald Trump, Jr

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this…

— Art Buchwald

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one…

— Arne Jacobsen

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

— Allan Gregg

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

— Gifford Pinchot

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

— John Muir

National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might…

— Wallace Stegner

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

— Isaac Asimov

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

— Aldo Leopold

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

— Dennis Weaver

Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

— Aldo Leopold

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

— Arianna Huffington

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

— Tulsi Tanti

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

— Aldo Leopold

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

— Rachel Carson