Conservation Quotes

287 quotes by 185 authors

What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one… — Mahatma Gandhi
If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. — Jane Goodall
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any… — Aldo Leopold
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder
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 wilderness… — Aldo Leopold
The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. — Rachel Carson
Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from… — Rebecca Solnit
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can… — Spider Robinson
But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature… — Rachel Carson
For God's sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man's blood was spilled… — Herman Melville
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin… — Wallace Stegner
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. — Peter Matthiessen
Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy… — Carl Sagan
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit… — Winston Churchill
Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative… — Lawrence Anthony
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! — Chief Seattle
In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'. — Gerald Durrell

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