Conservation Quotes - Page 17

• A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in
  turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land.
  Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort
  to understand and preserve this capacity.

  Aldo Leopold

  Responsibility, Self, Land

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• Political institutions, no matter how well or badly designed, depend for continued existence upon acting men; their conservation is achieved by the same means that brought them into being. Independent existence marks the work of art as a product of making; utter dependence upon further acts to keep it in existence marks the state as a product of action.

  Hannah Arendt

  Art, Mean, Independent

  Hannah Arendt (2000). “The Portable Hannah Arendt”, Penguin Group USA

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• You cannot cheat with the law of conservation of violence: all violence is paid for, and for example, the structural violence exerted by the financial markets, in the form of layoffs, loss of security, etc., is matched sooner or later in the form of suicides, crime and delinquency, drug addiction, alcoholism, a whole host of minor and major everyday acts of violence.

  Pierre Bourdieu

  Suicide, Loss, Law

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• Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.

  Maurice Samuel

  Struggle, Jewish Identity, Problem

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• Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.

  Ian McHarg

  Men, Earth, Blind

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• Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Heart, Sea

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• I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.

  Alain Bombard

  Ocean, Fighting, Men

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• A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

  Simon Barnes

  Nature, Luxury, Pockets

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• The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Two, Political

  "The Cycles of American History". Book by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., p. 23, 1986.

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• Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Bird, Study, Awareness

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

  Veerappa Moily

  Example, Fuel, Firsts

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• 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.

  Veerappa Moily

  Country, Independent, Energy

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• India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

  Jairam Ramesh

  Gdp, Growth, India

  Jairam Ramesh (2015). “Green Signals: Ecology, Growth, and Democracy in India”, p.139, Oxford University Press

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• As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Rare Beauty, Crowns

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3047, Delphi Classics

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• I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Apples, Fields

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.209, Gibbs Smith

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• Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum - many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Glasses, Sky

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.217, Courier Corporation

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• It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.

  Henry David Thoreau

  War, Men, Light

  David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.38, Harvard University Press

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• Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Kings, Inspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Maine Woods - The Writings of Henry David Thoreau”, p.102, Read Books Ltd

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• People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

  Allan Gregg

  Numbers, People, Voting

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• Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

  Maria Cantwell

  Oil, Car, Rejection

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• I think a portfolio standard should go beyond wind, solar and geothermal energy to include renewable energy like hydropower and clean alternatives such as coal gasification, clean coal, nuclear energy and, finally, credits for achieving new levels of efficiency and conservation.

  Pete Domenici

  Thinking, Wind, Energy

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• What people need to do is conserve what they have, .. There is a supply out there; we just need to conserve it. Going up and loading up your tank is not going to do that much. It's just going to deplete the supply, and the problem will eventually catch up to you.

  Mike Easley

  People, Tanks, Needs

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• As one of the nation's top agricultural states, Nebraska has a great opportunity to provide input that will help shape the 2007 Farm Bill, .. This legislation will help determine commodity price supports, priorities with regard to conservation programs, as well as rural development, renewable energy and beginning farmer initiatives for several years to come.

  Dave Heineman

  Opportunity, Years, Agriculture

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Gender Gap

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• This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.

  Cass Sunstein

  Judging, Majority, Conservative

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