Conservation Quotes

287 quotes by 189 authors

The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but… — Ian Cohen
There is no domestic issue more important to America in the long run than the conservation and proper use of our natural resources, including fresh… — Gaylord Nelson
The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing… — Aldo Leopold
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you… — Donald Trump, Jr.
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to… — Aldo Leopold
Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that… — Hannah Arendt
You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial… — Pierre Bourdieu
Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been… — Maurice Samuel
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the… — Sylvia Earle
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the… — Alain Bombard
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling… — Simon Barnes
To Jane Jacobâ€™s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. — Peter Calthorpe
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of… — Roger Tory Peterson
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. — Gale Norton
Nothing is more conservative than conservation — Russell Kirk
But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country… — Jim Costa
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as… — Pope Leo XIII

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