Conservation Quotes

The truth is: the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides...

Now, over half of us live in an urban environment. My home, too, is here in the city of London. Look...

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the aspha...

In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'.

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, ...

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

I do have hope. Nature is enormously resilient, humans are vastly intelligent, the energy and enthus...

In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like chara...

Put on a sweater.

We shall never fully understand nature (or ourselves), and certainly never respect it, until we diss...

A small cabin stands in the Glacier Peak Wilderness, about a hundred yards off a trail that crosses ...

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themsel...

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

If 22 bushels (1,300 pounds) of rice and 22 bushels of winter grain are harvested from a quarter acr...

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Natur...

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conc...

There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destructio...

This is one of the greatest challenges of our time: to convert ourselves to a type of development th...

The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, ...

This book was written using 100% recycled words.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as t...

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its exis...

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

Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the hist...

It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...

No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called...

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as ...

Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like...

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community t...

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

Ability to see the cultural value of wilderness boils down, in the last analysis, to a question of i...

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valu...

The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. Th...

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this re...

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks lik...

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the pape...

I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our sp...

The Holy Land is everywhere

The hole in the ozone layer is a kind of skywriting. At first it seemed to spell out our continuing ...

Another glorious feature of many modern science museums is a movie theater showing IMAX or OMNIMAX f...

As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practica...