Best 227 quotes in «conservation quotes» category

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

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

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nothing is more conservative than conservation

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

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

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.

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

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

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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