If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown… — David R. Brower Copy Share Image
“It doesn’t take long to realize you’ve made the wrong decision. You bump along with your eco-fueled ego in your eco-fueled vehicle… — A.J. Lauer Copy Share Image
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal,… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests… — Ian Cohen 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
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes [in animal and vegetal substances];… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more important to human beings than an ecologically functioning, life sustaining biosphere on the earth. It is the only habitable… — Joseph Guth 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
Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what… — Ursula Goodenough Copy Share Image
After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov.… — David Minge Copy Share Image
One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have… — Jerome Ringo Copy Share Image
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the… — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers,… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
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