Conservation Quote by Douglas Tompkins Download Open image “National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.” — Douglas Tompkins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conservation Environment Gold Gold standard National National parks Parks
National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in… — Enos Mills Copy Share
Civilization in our time is driven by materialism and troubled by pollution, over-population, corruption, and violence. National parks can hardly be uncoupled from the… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them. — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The National Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be. — Hallie Jackson Copy Share Image
National parks are cathedrals of spirituality and emotion, and unfortunately, they are being loved to death by many of the same people who enjoy… — Michael Frome Copy Share Image
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It doesn't seem to be worth wasting a lot of energy on attempting to rewrite the past. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Every single national park had some component of private philanthropy. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
I tell myself to hurry up, that I have to do everything before death catches me. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Resource efficiency is the wrong metric. We should use nature as the measure, using nature's wisdom as a template for our economic systems. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Despite my great disappointment in American foreign policy, I am very proud of the American tradition of wild land conservation. It is the best… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Fashion is one of the most intellectually vacuous industries. We had to manufacture desires to get people to buy our products. We were selling… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
Once we establish an architectural style in each park, we stick with it religiously and comprehensively so that it comes out as a gestalt. — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
“In the United States law, federally designated wilderness is famously defined as 'an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.' One environmental ethics text defines natural like this: 'Something is natural to the extent that it is independent of human design, control, and impacts.'… — Emma Marris Copy Share
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green Copy Share Image
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels,… — Peter Roskam Copy Share Image
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar… — Amy Ridenour Copy Share
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism. — Peter Calthorpe Copy Share Image
