Conservation Quotes - Page 4

• A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

  Aristide Briand

  Country, Justice, Battle

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• The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Environmental, Fundamentals, Dinosaurs

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.

  Jimmy Carter

  President, Energy, Degrees

  "Jimmy Carter: I Feel Like I'm 'Superior' to Other Ex-Presidents". Interview with Brian Williams, nation.foxnews.com. May 22, 2011.

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• Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

  Nancy Newhall

  Nature, Caring, Humanity

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• Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

  Dick Cheney

  Environmental, May, Energy

  "Cheney promises big US nuclear power expansion" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2001.

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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• Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

  Will Rogers

  Nature, Smart, Order

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

  Rachel Carson

  Wildlife, Resources, Protect

  Rachel Carson (1948). “Guarding Our Wildlife Resources”

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• Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Generations, Minorities, Purpose

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.359, Cambria Press

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• Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Past, Sea

  "APEC to meet on ocean conservation". www.cnn.com. October 9, 1998.

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• Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

  Aldo Leopold

  Exercise, Skills, Negative

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• We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Animal, Hunting

  July 17, 1971 interview quoted in "Breath of Fresh Air", edited by Nicholas Schneider, p. 180, 2008.

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• There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Issues, Conservative

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Earth, Environment

  "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.

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• It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.

  Rachel Carson

  Life, Ocean, Sea

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Law, Two Sides

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Nature, Responsibility, Land

  "Earth Day, 2015: Mixed Reactions" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 22, 2015.

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• Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Common Sense, Problem, Common Good

  Gifford Pinchot (2017). “Gifford Pinchot: Selected Writings”, p.43, Penn State Press

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• Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Nature, Men, Lakes

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• We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future.

  William J. Clinton

  Ocean, Sea, Environment

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.1573, Best Books on

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• We face the question whether a still higher "standard of living" is worth its cost in things natural, wild, and free.

  Aldo Leopold

  Wild And Free, Cost, Faces

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.7, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

  Aldo Leopold

  Mean, Eye, Hunting

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Environmental, Unhappy

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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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  The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

  Ross Perot

  Dirty, Men, Rivers

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