Conservation Quotes - Page 12

• A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

  Nash Buckingham

  Hunting, Hands, Ducks

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• It's a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.

  Jerry Adler

  Breathing, Earth, Problem

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• And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Beach, Sunset, Loss

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Patriotic, Issues, Safety

  Theodore Roosevelt (1958). “Autobiography: Condensed from the original ed., supplemented by letters, speeches, and other writings”

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• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

  John Muir

  Beauty, Beautiful, Nature

  John Muir (2001). “The Yosemite”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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

  Rachel Carson

  Rivers, Environmental, Causes

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• Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Order, House

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• A lot of fishermen are telling us they like things the way they are. They aren't pushing for the change. It's part of the conservation ethic that coastal fishermen have developed.

  Larry J. McKinney

  Way, Pushing, Ethics

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• This art of conservation is strength, and makes the masterpiece a masterpiece. Otherwise, the man who simply brought all the different colors obtainable, and squeezed them out upon the canvas to give it 'full force,' would be the greatest master, instead of being merely extravagant.

  John F. Carlson

  Art, Men, Color

  John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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

  Richard Branson

  Government, Interest, Clear

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

  Craig Shirley

  Movement, Definitions, Revolution

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• Government and business must come together on the interlinked issues of conservation, economic development and renewable energy. There are literally thousands of businesses, many in the tourism industry, that depend on an intact marine environment for their long-term survival.

  Richard Branson

  Marine, Government, Issues

  "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.

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• There are two principles inherent in the very nature of things, recurring in some particular embodiments whatever field we explore - the spirit of change, and the spirit of conservation. There can be nothing real without both. Mere change without conservation is a passage from nothing to nothing. . . . Mere conservation without change cannot conserve. For after all, there is a flux of circumstance, and the freshness of being evaporates under mere repetition.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Change, Real, Two

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

  Aldo Leopold

  New Relationship, Land, People

  Aldo Leopold (1940). “Wisconsin Wildlife Chronology”

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• 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

  Aldo Leopold

  Men, Land, Impact

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  Aldo Leopold

  Art, Quality, Ability

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Work sustains us as bodies and it consumes a great deal of energy. The conservation of energy is the component theme of Buddhist practice and yoga. That is why people live in monasteries.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhist, Yoga

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• We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who don't know how to clean and fry a fish.

  John Gierach

  Thinking, Lakes, Sea

  John Gierach (2012). “No Shortage of Good Days”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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• Somehow in the middle of the L.A. trendiness, Boston conservation, New York chic and San Francisco intellectual mellow, there's a place where everything meets.

  Frederick Lenz

  New York, Buddhism, Boston

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• The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory of man! As if individual speculators were to be allowed to export the clouds out of the sky, or the stars out of the firmament, one by one. We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.158

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• It would be worth the while if in each town there were a committee appointed to see that the beauty of the town received no detriment. If we have the largest boulder in the county, then it should not belong to an individual, nor be made into door-steps.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Doors, Boulders, Would Be

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.226, Courier Corporation

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• Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

  Richard Dawkins

  Marine, Thinking, Fishing

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

  James Lovelock

  Stupid, Climate, Humans

  "James Lovelock: Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.

  Victor Blanchard Scheffer

  Moving, Men, Islands

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