Conservation Quotes

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

Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

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

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

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

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

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land?

The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.

Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

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.

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

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

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

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

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

All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

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

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

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.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

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

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.

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.

It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.

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

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

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.

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

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

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.