Conservation Quotes
India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'
The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.
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.
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve
If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.
There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.
From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.
Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.
It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.
I've learned that if you want people to join in any kind of conservation effort, you have to help them to care with their hearts, not just their heads.
There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.
Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.
Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.
The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs .
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.
The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.
Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.
Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.
I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.
We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.
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.
I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival.
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.
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.
There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.
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.
