Battle Quote by David Suzuki

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

— Thomas Jefferson

Given continued high rates of population increase, all environmental victories are temporary.

— Thomas W. Horton

We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody…

— Ted Danson

“For a century, environmentalism has divided itself into warring camps: conservationists versus preservationists.... The struggle pits those who would meddle with nature against those…

— David Baron

“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But now, in…

— Rebecca Solnit

It is evident that many wars are fought over resources which are now becoming increasingly scarce. If we conserved our resources better, fighting over…

— Wangari Maathai

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

— Stefanie Powers

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

— Rene Dubos

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn…

— George Schaller

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

— Mark Kurlansky

The real strength of the environmental movement is the tens of thousands, even millions of individuals around the world who are really making a…

— Paul Watson

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan…

— Ronald Reagan