Conservationist Quotes

#1. I am a shark, the ground is my ocean, and most people can't even swim.

Rickson Gracie

#2. The earliest memories I have of the ocean are actually stories - stories from my grandfather, the legendary ocean explorer and conservationist Jacques Cousteau. My passion for ocean conservation stems from learning at a very young age that we're all connected; we're all in this together.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#3. Few people understand the magnitude of the catastrophe that happened late in the 1980s when the Communist Party had failed to modernize the Soviet Union.

Vladimir Putin

#4. I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

Aldo Leopold

#5. 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

#6. It disturbed me that he saw things in such black-and-white tones. I sure didn't. For me, the world was a confusion of color.

Dia Reeves

#7. Captain Falco saw the diminishment of biodiversity in our oceans over a span of nearly seven decades. He was dedicated to the protection of life and habitats in the sea. He was a legendary mariner, diver, oceanographer, and conservationist. The world is a better place because of him.

Paul Watson

#8. Still, it's always nice to be around somebody who thinks I am wonderful. It confirms my low opinion of people.

Jeff Lindsay

#9. I am more of a conservationist, myself. And people have come to me and said, "Wow, you're an African-American conservationist!" And my response is, "No, I'm a conservationist who happens to be black."

Jerome Ringo

#10. It's sort of well-known that anytime any catastrophe happens anywhere in the world, they can count on the United States for help.

Morgan Freeman

#11. A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

John James Audubon

#12. A man could shoot thirty ducks if it pleased him, and then shoot thirty more the next day, and it was perfectly legal. His hunting partner was likely to be the county sheriff.

Stefan Bechtel

#13. No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.

Yoko Ono

#14. I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich.

Sebastian Horsley

#15. Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#16. Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.

Robin Hobb

#17. That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.

Aldo Leopold

#18. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land.

Aldo Leopold

#19. The Americans were understandably on hair triggers. There was a good reason for all of this security. For despite TV images of quick victory, much of Baghdad certainly had not fallen and firefights with die-hard Ba'athists loyal to Saddam Hussein were raging all over the city.

Lawrence Anthony

#20. The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

Ursula Goodenough

#21. Another example of how connected we all are, and are meant to be, is the story of the "elephant whisperer," the late Lawrence Anthony. He was a conservationist who saved the lives of countless elephants

Christiane Northrup

#22. I am a conservationist. It is in my DNA.

Louis Bacon

#23. The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

Michael Novak

#24. Go figure that. Joseph Morelli with a house, a dog, a steady job, and an SUV. And on odd days of the month he woke up wanting to marry me. It turns out want to marry him on even days of the month, so to date we've been spared commitment.

Janet Evanovich

#25. Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.

Paul Watson

#26. Every place in the world where there are two peoples - two religions, two languages - there is friction and conflict.

Avigdor Lieberman

#27. Little Sally is beheading daisies on the drive ... couldn't be more eloquent if she could speak ...

Lauren Groff