Conservation Quotes · Page 4

First we must learn to love nature. Then comes conservation.

— Tamilisai Soundararajan

“You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.”

— Donella Meadows

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

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

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

— John Muir

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

— Gifford Pinchot

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

“One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations…

— Douglas Tallamy

“Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality…

— Steve Merrick

It's not called the low country for nothing, it's literally at sea level. If we don't start paying attention to conservation in…

— Madelyn Cline

I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation.…

— Ian Somerhalder

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means…

— John N. Mitchell

I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement…

— Don Sherwood

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies…

— Daryl Hannah

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently…

— Lawrence Anthony

We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the…

— Vandana Shiva

Most of us still believe in the intrinsic value of nature, but I think the first century of the environmental/conservation movement demonstrated…

— Edward Norton

Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have gone through two decades of an energy crisis without an effective energy…

— Wendell Berry

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit…

— Wallace Stegner

We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action…

— Pope Leo XIII

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of activists of…

— Robert D Bullard

The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health,…

— Melville Fuller

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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

— Tom Suozzi

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

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

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

— David Attenborough

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

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Jeff Bridges

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

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

— Gale Norton