Best 227 quotes in «conservation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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 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'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Although justifications for wild meat harvest in terms of food for impoverished communities must be weighed seriously, it is critical to acknowledge that the terms ‘protein’ and ‘meat’ are not synonymous.

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.

Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX films. In some cases the screen is ten stories tall and wraps around you. The Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museu, the popular museum on Earth, has premiered in its Langley Theater some of the best of these films. 'To Fly' brings a catch to my throat even after five or six viewings. I've seen religious leaders of many denominations witness 'Blue Planet' and be converted on the spot to the need to protect the Earth's environment