Climate Quote by Theodore Roosevelt

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.

— Herbert Hoover

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

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once,…

— Theodore Roosevelt

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn…

— Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is…

— Ronald Reagan

Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs,…

— Dian Fossey

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means…

— Michel de Montaigne