Best 227 quotes in «conservation quotes» category

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

If the land mechanism as a whole is good then every part is good, whether we understand it or not.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of the wolf.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency

The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested in soil conservation and water preservation. Our forests will be in better shape if Congress does what it needs to do to fix the fire-suppression budget.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of intellectual humility. The shallow-minded modern who has lost his rootage in the land assumes that he has already discovered what is important; it is such who prate of empires, political or economic, that will last a thousand years. It is only the scholar who appreciates that all history consists of successive excursions from a single starting-point, to which man returns again and again to organize yet another search for a durable scale of values. It is only the scholar who understands why the raw wilderness gives definition and meaning to the human enterprise.

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

99% of human existence has been nonindustrial, nonmajor agriculture, it's been hunting, gathering & agroecology.

Adults enjoy this book as much as kids! Every person I hear from says they learned something and it was fun. "I wish I were as smart as Miss Marble!

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

Age in itself gives substance — what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer’s mind.

All over the globe today, the environment is at odds with the economy, and the future of wildlife -- and our future, really -- is in the hands of lawmakers and world leaders. We have to choose who we're going to be, and what kind of world we want to leave behind for our children.