The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. — John Muir Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats. — Allan Gregg Copy Share Image
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I was the environmentalist of the year for the New York League of Conservation Voters. — Tom Suozzi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable… — Craig Shirley Copy Share Image
“...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my… — Lawrence Millman Copy Share Image
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Modern man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the… — George Will Copy Share Image
The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York,… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested… — Tom Vilsack Copy Share Image
I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
If we're going to improve the environment, the first thing we should do is duck the government. The second thing we should… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over… — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
The biggest gains, in terms of decreasing the country's energy bill, the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere, and… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
There is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the… — Matt Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive. — Norm Dicks Copy Share Image
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. — Gale Norton Copy Share Image
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot Copy Share Image
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence… — Lynn Townsend White, Jr Copy Share Image
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
“You can't start drilling after dark, everyone knows that. He'd have to turn on all the lights and no one could say… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. — Dirk Kempthorne Copy Share Image
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.” — William Powers Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
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