Conservation Quotes - Page 11

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

  Thomas Friedman

  Amazon, Ethics, License

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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

  Mollie Beattie

  Nature, Environment, Ifs

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• 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 for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.

  Pat Paulsen

  Beautiful, Land, Effort

  "Paulsen's Running - But Where Is He?" by David Holmstrom, www.csmonitor.com. February 05, 1992.

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• Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources.

  Mark Udall

  Responsibility, Water, Drink

  "Celebrating Earth Day" by Mark Udall, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2012.

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

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Form, Smart Growth

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.

  Larry J. McKinney

  Way, Pushing, Ethics

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• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  Naveen Jain

  Effort, World, Faces

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

  E. O. Wilson

  Loss, Years, Diversity

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Giving, Earth Day, Environmental

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• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Feels Just, Destruction

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.24, Cambria Press

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• Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Rivers, Age

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “In the Words of Theodore Roosevelt: Quotations from the Man in the Arena”, p.128, Cornell University Press

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

  Rachel Carson

  Rivers, Environmental, Causes

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• Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.

  Richard Louv

  Nature, Land, People

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Land, Cogs, Tinkering

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Dedication, Land, Feelings

  Sigurd F Olson (2012). “Reflections from the North Country”, p.153, Knopf

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• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

  Aldo Leopold

  Taken, Sunset, Wind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

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• I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet. Unfortunately there are countries who are still destroying it, but we really hope the conservation message rubs off in our film. Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

  Steve Irwin

  Country, Optimistic, Environmental

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• Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Trying, Example

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• The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

  John Muir

  Battle, Building Walls, Goes On

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• If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  War, Thinking, Land

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• The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.

  Nuno Oliveira

  Horse, Art, Moving

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