Conservation Quotes - Page 14

• There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

  George Schaller

  Fighting, Victory, Habitat

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• The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Political, Body, Unjust

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.7, Oxford University Press

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• I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.

  Jerome Ringo

  Organization, African American, Firsts

  "The Pioneer". Interview with Erik Kancler, www.motherjones.com. April 25, 2005.

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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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• We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

  Dennis Weaver

  Clean, Planets, Species

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• My two primary areas of focus have been open-space conservation and education, and I expect those to remain my priorities in the future. The Irvine open space and parklands provide serenity and balance to our unique Orange County lifestyle.

  Donald Bren

  Unique, Two, Orange

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• [M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Years, Two

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• There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

  William Howard Taft

  Mean, People, Favors

  Quoted in J W Millim an Land Economics (1962).

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• It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests.

  Louis Bromfield

  Patriotic, Fighting, Water

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• The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to bring about a better society which should then improve education, and so on indefinitely. Correct education could not come into existence until an ideal state existed, and after that education would be devoted simply to its conservation. For the existence of this state he was obliged to trust to some happy accident by which philosophic wisdom should happen to coincide with possession of ruling power in the state.

  John Dewey

  Plato, Philosophy, Would Be

  "Democracy and Education". Book by John Dewey, 1916.

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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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• 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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• 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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• It takes many years to become proficient in energy conservation. But it is something that happens. You get continually stronger. You see your attention field is far different than it ever was before.

  Frederick Lenz

  Years, Stronger, Energy

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• Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Money, Business, Principles

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• Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.

  Arianna Huffington

  Cutting, Hollywood, Gone

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