Causes Quote by Rachel Carson

For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our…

— Terri Irwin

Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

— Roger Tory Peterson

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

— Gifford Pinchot

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

Conservation is now a dead word.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

— Nancy Newhall

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

— Aldo Leopold

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward.…

— Peter Eisenman

Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.

— Daniel Gilbert

If something is sustainable, it means we can go on doing it indefinitely. If it isn't, we can't

— Jonathon Porritt