Nature Quote by John Drake Robinson

If we can't export the scenery, we'll import the tourists.

— William Cornelius Van Horne

As our cities and suburbs relentlessly expand, those priceless open spaces needed for recreation areas accessible to their people are swallowed up-often forever. Unless…

— Richard M. Nixon

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

— Gilberto Gil

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and…

— Gifford Pinchot

...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth…

— Richard M. Nixon

I strongly believe that it's possible to conserve our heritage while making more healthful choices.

— Marcela Valladolid

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

Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has been blessed. It…

— Richard M. Nixon

We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this…

— Bruce Babbitt

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way…

— Andrew Dost

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

Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We…

— Edward Abbey