Quotes About Environment Conservation

#1. There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

Robert Lynd

#2. For every tree, we plant, we saves a life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

Richard Branson

#4. The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing complacency before a witch's brew of deadly perils. But perhaps it really tells of a newfound talent to work together to protect the global environment.

Carl Sagan

#5. You maybe able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Donella H. Meadows

#6. This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development that knows how to respect creation.

Pope Francis

#7. Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following.

Auliq Ice

#8. With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and its little confluents to drink and be clean and irrigate with, using water mindfully, carefully. They lived in a land that answers greed with drought and death. A difficult land: aloof yet sensitive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#9. If you want to save the humankind,
you should first take care of Nature.
It's the legacy that we leave behind,
That brings us hope, that's for sure!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#10. They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

Willa Cather

#11. Do you know how many acres of beautiful forests and moors have been destroyed by your company? How many animals have lost their homes and how many trees have been murdered? I am sick of being bothered by you people.

Emily Arden

#12. To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Theodore Roosevelt

#13. The boundary between tame and wild exists only in the imperfections of the human mind.

Aldo Leopold

#14. Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. Plant a tree in your lifetime.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.

Mike Bond

#17. Conservation of energy also protects our environment.

Lamar S. Smith

#18. Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

George Carlin

#19. The whole environment out there is a living, breathing almost conscious being that is saying something to us human beings. The forests can't act but they can inspire us and they inspire people like myself and money others in the conservation movement to act on their behalf.

Ian Cohen

#20. The wild is where you find it, not in some distant world relegated to a nostalgic past or an idealized future; its presence is not black or white, bad or good, corrupted or innocent... We are of that nature, not apart from it. We survive because of it, not instead of it.

Renee Askins

#21. Environment isn't asking us to conserve her for her but for our future generations.

Mohith Agadi

#22. I have a conflict of interest in environmental conservation.

Mohith Agadi

#23. The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. 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

#25. Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works.

Roger Tory Peterson

#26. So you know that all living things share the same energy source and that every action that humans do to nature will affect everything on this planet.

Alison Cooklin

#27. We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.

Annie Leonard

#28. I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems. I have the same responsibility as everyone to reduce consumption and to teach children to respect the environment.

Harrison Ford

#29. If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.

E. O. Wilson

#30. Put on a sweater.

Jimmy Carter

#31. Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

Theodore Roosevelt

#32. We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.

Zephyr McIntyre

#33. Conservation must become before recreation.

Prince Charles

#34. Is it wrong of me to propose a ceasefire agreement between humans and whales and dolphins, I know it is in actuality a one sided massacre, but so was Bosnia and there the ceasefire is holding, so would it be nice to have a declaration backing a ceasefire between us mammals?

Steve Merrick

#35. God loves cleanliness.
The environment must be kept clean.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

Gil Scott-Heron

#37. Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history.

Callum Roberts

#38. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

Donald Trump Jr.

#39. Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it.

Jack Barker

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

Mollie Beattie

#41. 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

#42. 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