Conservation Quotes - Page 2

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

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

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.

The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested in soil conservation and water preservation. Our forests will be in better shape if Congress does what it needs to do to fix the fire-suppression budget.

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon.

If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.

You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.