Top 100 Conservation Quotes

A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary.

The United Nations World Charter for Nature, section 21, empowers any nongovernmental organisation or individual to uphold international conservation law in areas beyond national jurisdiction and specifically on the high seas.

I want clean water and clean air and conservation… that’s not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

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.

Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that’s what I like to step behind 100 percent.

In big museums, the role of the curator has shrunk in recent years as different branches of curatorial work – such as interpretation, or learning, or conservation – have split off and become professions of their own.

This isn’t just about today, this about generations to come. And you’ve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he’s done it.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

When I was about eighteen, I saw myself as a rather sensitive, delicate, poetic, romantic figure. And then I got into the Civilian Conservation Corps and into the army, and I started smoking and drinking and being tough and getting muscles, and I had a whole different image of myself.

The Great American Outdoors Act is landmark conservation legislation to protect our public lands, including right here in New Jersey.

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them.

I was a kid that loved reptiles and eventually started an organization dedicated to saving turtles and tortoises, called the Turtle Conservancy, where we protect land and basically do species conservation around the world.

Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

I work with 15 organisations that deal with issues ranging from environment protection and wildlife conservation to human rights, and women’s and children’s rights, etc.

I’m not a poster boy for Conservation International. I’m a working member of the board.

Energy conservation is a responsibility that falls on every country and individual.

World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don’t want to see land set aside.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Partnering with local governments to conserve critical working landscapes and protect our abundant natural resources is key to maximizing the conservation impact of state funds.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

It’s not called the low country for nothing, it’s literally at sea level. If we don’t start paying attention to conservation in our environment, the water levels are going to rise and those areas are going to start disappearing.

I’m involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I’m passionate about animals.

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.

Striking a balance between wildlife conservation and wind energy development starts with understanding threats to eagle populations and how our actions, including operating wind farms, are affecting them.

Saving petrol is saving India’s money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

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.

The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child’s play.

Environment conservation without stagnating development is the objective of our government.

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

Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.

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.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

I think if you go out with too hard a conservation message, then you convince people that it’s all doom and gloom and nothing can be done.

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation.

Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund.

We will work on maximizing the introduction of energy conservation and renewable energy, while lowering our dependence on nuclear power generation as much as possible.

Conservation of any endangered species must begin with stringent efforts to protect its natural habitat by the enforcement of rigid legislation against human encroachment into parks and other game sanctuaries.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

I hope people will learn more about agriculture in America. About locally grown farming and about water conservation. About how much pollution results from beef and pig farming.

I reserve the right to survey the national political landscape for candidates at all levels who reflect a proper understanding of our national security, economic security, and family security – the ideals of social conservation, the heart and strength of our country.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

I don’t flatter myself – I’m not a scientist, I’m not a conservation expert.

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

There’s an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.

‘Keeper’ is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition.

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

I’m also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing – like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he’s a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.