Best Quote by Douglas Tompkins

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon…

— Pat Paulsen

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

— Theodore Roosevelt

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

— Ted Nugent

“Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause, I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time…

— Edward Abbey

We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. Americas lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.

— Ben Nelson

Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish…

— John F. Kennedy

I just have to believe that with love for our natural heritage and a firm resolve to preserve it with wisdom and care, we…

— Ronald Reagan

To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.

— William Least Heat-Moon

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

— Douglas Tompkins

The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the frontier, the…

— Anna Deavere Smith

The love for our native land strengthens our individual and national character.

— Alexander Hamilton

Protecting our wild and wonderful landscape is good for nature, good for tourism and good for West Virginia's economy and quality of life.

— Jim Justice