Conservation Quote by Learned Hand

“The idea of self-denial for the sake of posterity, of practicing present economy for the sake of debtors yet unborn, of planting forests that…

— John Ruskin

If we lose the forests, we lose our only teachers.

— Bill Mollison

“The tree is burning on the autumn noon That builds each year the leaf and bark again. Though frost will strip it raw and…

— Donald Hall

Remember, we without our roots and branches cannot be saved.

— Quentin L. Cook

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these…

— Frank Herbert

We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live…

— Eddie Montgomery

Sometimes we can lose the wood for the trees. Some specific issues dealt with in the book [Saving Calvinism]: the scope of election (who…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Look: the trees exist; the houses we dwell in stand there stalwartly. Only we pass by it all, like a rush of air. And…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

— Mitch Albom

If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth,"…

— Anonymous

Let us regard the forests as an inheritance, given to us by nature, not to be despoiled or devastated, but to be wisely used,…

— Ferdinand von Mueller

It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we have pursued…

— Thomas Jefferson