Conservation Quotes

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. (Adlai Stevenson II)
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. View quote
Aldo Leopold
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. View quote
Aristide Briand
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. View quote
Christopher Lasch
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. View quote
Gale Norton
Conservation is now a dead word. View quote
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. View quote
Tom Allen
Only within the 20th Century has biological thought been focused on ecology, or the relation of the living creature to its environment. Awareness of ecological relationships is - or should be - the basis of modern conservation programs, for it is useless to attempt to preserve a living species unless the kind of land or water it requires is also preserved. So delicately interwoven are the relationships that when we disturb one thread of the community fabric we alter it all - perhaps almost imperceptibly, perhaps so drastically that destruction follows. View quote
Rachel Carson
Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. View quote
Spider Robinson
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily taken for the future. (Theodore Roosevelt)
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. View quote
Gray Davis
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go. View quote
Pat Paulsen
- Mr.Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? - Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down. View quote
Winston Churchill
As we can not give a general definition of energy, the principle of the conservation of energy signifies simply that there is something which remains constant. View quote
Henri Poincaré
Relegating conservation to government is like relegating virtue to the Sabbath. Turns over to professionals what should be daily work of amateurs . View quote
Aldo Leopold
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow. View quote
Aldo Leopold
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. (Aldo Leopold)
Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture. View quote
Aldo Leopold
What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and, by cautious experimentation, to prove how it works? What more substantial service to conservation than to practice it on one's own land? View quote
Aldo Leopold
Life should be built on the conservation of energy. View quote
Herbert M. Shelton
I'd like to continue to spread my message on conservation and make sure my dad's message - his legacy - lives on. View quote
Bindi Irwin