Conservation Quotes - Page 8

• See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Hero, Jacques Cousteau

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• Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Kids, Rights, Support

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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• The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!

  Wesley K. Wark

  Office, Energy, Climate

  "General Wesley K. Clark, Co-Chair of Growth Energy". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.

  Van Jones

  Blessed, Blue, People

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Thinking, Soul, Survival

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• This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people.

  Walt Whitman

  Nature, Animal, Leaves Of Grass

  "Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition".

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• It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Nature, Fall, Swans

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• We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

  Amory Lovins

  Home, Alaska, Oil

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• The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Science, Law

  "Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations". 1988.

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• The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.

  Prince Philip

  Nature, Long, Generations

  Speech at the Australian Conservation Foundation, Canberra, in April 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the medical scientists. Studying model species is a great idea, but we need to combine that with biodiversity studies and have those properly supported because of the contribution they can make to conservation biology, to agrobiology, to the attainment of a sustainable world.

  E. O. Wilson

  World, Today, Students

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet.

  Sylvia Earle

  Motivation, Ocean, Inspiration

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

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Environmental, Natural Environment

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• When you defile the pleasant streams,
  And the wild bird's abiding place,
  You massacre a million dreams,
  And cast your spittle in God's face

  John Drinkwater

  Dream, Nature, Bird

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat-glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?

  Frank N. Ikard

  Morning, Children, Animal

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• If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

  Peter Benchley

  Rain, Ocean, Men

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• Life should be built on the conservation of energy.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Energy, Should, Built

  Herbert M. Shelton (1996). “Living Life to Live It Longer”, p.34, Health Research Books

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• For a modern ruler the laws of conservation and transformation of energy, when the vivifing stream takes its source, the ways it wends its course in nature, and how, under wisdom and knowledge, it may be intertwined with human destiny, instead of careering headlong to the ocean, are a study at least as pregnant with consequences to life as any lesson taught by the long unscientific history of man.

  Frederick Soddy

  Ocean, Destiny, Men

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• Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.

  Dian Fossey

  Dog, Cutting, Feet

  "Naturalist Dian Fossey Slain at Camp in Rwanda : American Was Expert on Mountain Gorillas; Assailants Hunted". articles.latimes.com. December 29, 1985.

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• If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

  Steven Chu

  Energy, World, Dinosaurs

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• Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

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• At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Attitude, Heart, Science

  "The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark". Ch. 17 : The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder. Book by Carl Sagan, 1995.

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• In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

  Paul Brooks

  Land, America, Environmental

  Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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