Able Quote by Tom Hanks

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

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

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the…

— Douglas Tompkins

It only makes sense to have the people managing hundreds of millions of acres of land located near that land and accessible to those…

— Lauren Boebert

Land is a great example of how we can manage and invest in sustainable infrastructure for economic, social, and environmental gains. Its use -…

— Paul Polman

We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground,…

— Allen Lacy

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

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

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service…

— Aldo Leopold

If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means you have…

— Leonardo DiCaprio

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

— Chief Seattle

I protect my land like a farmer.

— Juelz Santana