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Conservation Quotes by Aldo Leopold
- 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…
- 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…
- In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
- Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so…
- Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.
- Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.
- Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.
- There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a…
- Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
- 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…
- 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…
More Conservation Quotes
- People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you… — David Attenborough
- I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. — Jeff Bridges
- A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. — Edmund Burke
- I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism… — Jimmy Carter
- Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. — Dick Cheney
- The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer… — Joel Sartore
- I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans -… — Jacques Yves Cousteau
- I hope for your help to explore and protect the wild ocean in ways that will restore the health and, in so… — Sylvia Earle
- Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because… — Sylvia Earle
- Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now. — Sylvia Earle