Conservation Quotes · Page 8

“A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.”

— Edmund Burke

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

— Mollie Beattie

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

— Naveen Jain

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

— Rachel Carson

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Tulsi Tanti

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

— Dennis Weaver

The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten…

— Aldo Leopold

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation…

— Peter Calthorpe

If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Without the support of local people, you might as well give up because you can make all the noise you like, you…

— Jane Goodall

I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives…

— Pete Domenici

It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay…

— Robert Dold

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also,…

— John W. Snow

“But what good is yelling about the Capitol in the middle of the woods? It doesn't change anything. It doesn't make things…

— Suzanne Collins

Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make…

— Carl Safina

Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as…

— Aldo Leopold

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Thoreau the “Patron Saint of Swamps” because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, “my temple is the swamp……

— Henry David Thoreau

“In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to…

— Mark Carwardine

There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals.…

— Dustin Clare

“To all accusations of excessive development the administrators can reply, as they will if pressed hard enough, that they are giving the…

— Edward Abbey

I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we…

— Thomas Friedman

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Christopher Lasch

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

— Steve Irwin

“There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of…

— milton friedman

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

— Herbert Hoover

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

— Aldo Leopold

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

— Ted Nugent

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

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

— Adlai Stevenson

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

— James Lipton

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

— Paul Gillmor

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

— Ian McHarg

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

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

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

— Klaus Topfer