Conservation Quotes - Page 5

• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.

  Jeff Corwin

  Fear, Believe, Fate

  Jeff Corwin (2009). “100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species”, p.15, Rodale

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• The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.

  Janine Benyus

  Inspirational, Change, Mother

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• Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children's lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.

  Luna Leopold

  Nature, Children, Rivers

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• Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

  Margaret Murie

  Life, Nature, Civilization

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• At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

  Chico Mendes

  Rain, Fighting, Tree

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• Without water, our planet would be one of the billions of lifeless rocks floating endlessly in the vastness of the inky-black void.

  Fabien Cousteau

  Ocean, Rocks, Sea

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Energy, Environment, Protect

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• What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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  It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Fighting, Government

  "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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• Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Pain, Men, Compassion

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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• I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.

  Greg Walden

  Technology, Oil, America

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• Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

  John W. Snow

  Play, Doubt, Facts

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace

  Gifford Pinchot

  Practice, Two, Foundation

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

  Steve Irwin

  Hunters, Crocs, Crocodiles

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• 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.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Mars, Done, Environment

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Mean, Diversity

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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

  Christopher Lasch

  Order, Innovation, Reckless

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• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Changing Environment, Saving The Earth

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

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• He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

  Lucy Larcom

  Nature, Garden, Tree

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• The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Air, Water

  "David Attenborough: force of nature". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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