Conservation Quotes
287 quotes by 189 authors
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People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.
— David Attenborough
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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions…
— David Attenborough
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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating…
— David Attenborough
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I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
— Jeff Bridges
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
— Edmund Burke
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection…
— Jimmy Carter
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Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.
— Dick Cheney
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The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it…
— Joel Sartore
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I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so doing, secure hope…
— Sylvia Earle
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Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something…
— Sylvia Earle
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Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.
— Sylvia Earle
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I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.
— Sylvia Earle
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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.
— Peter Benchley
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We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine.
— Pierce Brosnan
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We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.
— William J. Clinton
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Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
— Gale Norton
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'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which…
— Dian Fossey
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If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
— Steven Chu
Who Wrote These Conservation Quotes
189 authors contributed a total of 287 Conservation Quotes, led by these top contributors: