Biology Quote by Aldo Leopold

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

— Dalai Lama

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

— Henry David Thoreau

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no…

— Aldo Leopold

Wildness is not just the "preservation of the world," it is the world

— Gary Snyder

In wildness is the salvation of the world,

— Aldo Leopold

When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

“We must stand on the side of goodness, compassion and conscience, not to keep the processes in Nature functioning, but because if we don't,…

— Abhijit Naskar

“There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only…

— Stephen Jay Gould

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration.

— Michael Ignatieff

In fact, if you think hard about it, animal conservation should actually be anathema to the Darwin-loving liberal agenda, which holds up evolution -…

— S.E. Cupp