Conservative Quote by Russell Kirk

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are…

— Simon Barnes

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

This whole effort to rebuild and stabilize a countryside is not without its disappointments and mistakes... What matter though these temporary growing pains when…

— Aldo Leopold

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of…

— Yoweri Museveni

I protect my land like a farmer.

— Juelz Santana

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must restore what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

— Charles Taylor

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

— Gunter Grass

You cannot protect the environment unless you empower people, you inform them, and you help them understand that these resources are their own, that…

— Wangari Maathai

We have been the most prodigal of people with land, and for years we wasted it with impunity. There was so much of it,…

— William H. Whyte

We need to defend the fruits of our land.

— Matteo Salvini

It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.

— Diodorus Siculus