Quotes About Environmental Conservation

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

Mohith Agadi

#2. I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#3. 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.

Edward Norton

#4. The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone
they'll survive for a few more thousand years, more or less, without any glorification from us.

Edward Abbey

#5. One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.

Jerome Ringo

#6. Stream is stream.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. 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.

Peter Calthorpe

#8. 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

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

Auliq Ice

#10. Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Tom Allen

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief
like a whisper of wind
when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.

Edward Abbey

#14. The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection.

Li Keqiang

#15. Plant a tree in your lifetime.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#16. More and more, paddling the Yellowstone feels like that bedside visit, like we are attending to a friend in dire straits, a friend whom we have seen in the full bloom of health, but with whom, now, there is little to say and only our companionship to offer.

Alan S. Kesselheim

#17. Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Rachel Carson

#18. 'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.

Naveen Jain

#19. I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

Barton Seaver

#20. Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

Paul Watson

#21. It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

David Jenkins

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

Mohith Agadi

#23. Helping people understand the impact of key environmental and human issues worldwide is something that I'm passionate about. CNN's 'Going Green' series of specials are engaging viewers around the world through important messages of conservation and hope.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. Every intelligent man saw the poverty that would follow the destruction of the beaver, but there were no chiefs to control it; all was perfect liberty and equality.

David Thompson

#26. Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#27. The world is a beautiful place,
you just don't see it all the time.

Phil Mitchell

#28. 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

#29. To grow a sanctuary from seedlings takes time. But time has a way of going faster than you realize, and before you're aware of it you'll be rewarded hundredfold for your efforts.

David Kline

#30. The love for God is the love for nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#31. The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

Gaylord Nelson

#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. All I really want is for our world to become increasingly more beautiful.

Fennel Hudson

#34. Perhaps the problem is not that we didn't work well enough together, but that we worked to well. In fact, maybe if we hadn't worked so well together, we wouldn't be destroying the earth so rapidly.

Steve Van Matre

#35. Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!

Edward Abbey

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#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. Corporate Responsibility; Environmental Preservation; Consumer Protection; Sex & Race Discrimination (they must mean Sex and Race Liberation).

John Cage

#39. I don't need any more press. I get enough when I work, but environmental causes is one place where you can get me to open my mouth. And put my foot in it if necessary. I think the only thing I do that gives me any bragging rights in terms of energy conservation is sailing. Just using wind power.

Morgan Freeman

#40. Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it.

Toba Beta

#41. Every man ought to plant a tree.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#42. Somebody has to be tireless or the fast buck operators would asphalt the entire coast, fill every bay and slay every living thing incapable of carrying a wallet.

John D. MacDonald