Conservation Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I think a lot of people in the Conservative party came from other parties. There wouldn't be a Conservative party today if people hadn't come from other parties.

  Tim Powers

  Party, Thinking, People

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• To be poor and be without trees, is to be the most starved human being in the world. To be poor and have trees, is to be completely rich in ways that money can never buy.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Tree, World, Way

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• The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

  John Green

  Swings, Catholic, Voters

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• Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

  Dalai Lama

  Survival, Morality

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (2004). “Worlds in Harmony: Compassionate Action for a Better World”, p.55, Parallax Press

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• Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink.

  Eric Burdon

  California, People, Water

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• Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Water, Diversity, Design

  Rebecca Solnit (2008). “Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics”, p.9, Univ of California Press

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• The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

  Rachel Carson

  War, Civilization, Losing

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish.

  Aldo Leopold

  Self, Wilderness, Cherish

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA

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• China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.

  Mark Carwardine

  Wine, Rhinos, Issues

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• There is a conservation of matter and of energy, there may be a conservation of life; or if not of life, of something which transcends life.

  Oliver Lodge

  Life, Science, Energy

  Sir Oliver Lodge (1918). “Christopher: A Study in Human Personality”, London : Cassell

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• People who blame the Bible for the modern destruction of nature have failed to see its delight in the variety and individuality of creatures and its insistence upon their holiness. But that delight-in, say, the final chapters of Job or the 104th Psalm-is far more useful to the cause of conservation than the undifferentiating abstractions of science... Reverence gives standing to creatures, and to our perception of them, just as the law gives standing to a citizen.

  Wendell Berry

  Jobs, Animal, Law

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• And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Car, Alternatives

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• I have no problem with a war for oil-if we accompany it with a real program for energy conservation. But when we tell the world we couldn't care less about climate change, that we feel entitled to drive whatever big cars we feel like, that we feel entitled to consume however much oil we like, the message we send is that a war for oil in the gulf is not a war to protect the world's right to economic survival-but our right to indulge. Now that will be seen as immoral.

  Thomas Friedman

  Real, War, Oil

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• And so when we talk about intangible values remember that they cannot be separated from the others. The conservation of waters, forests, soils, and wildlife are all involved with the conservation of the human spirit. The goal we all strive toward is happiness, contentment, the dignity of the individual, and the good life. This goal will elude us forever if we forget the importance of the intangibles.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Good Life, Elude Us, Water

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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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