Conservation Quotes - Page 9

• I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Simple, Political

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• The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

  Alan Clark

  Helping, Protect, Species

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• Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Elephants, Impact, Worry

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• The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

  Edmund Burke

  Ideas, People, Principles

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.109

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• We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

  Henry Ford

  Use, May, Want

  Henry Ford (2006). “The Great To-Day and Greater Future”, p.116, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

  Darryl Cherney

  Inspirational, Warrior, Earth Day

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• Nothing is more conservative than conservation

  Russell Kirk

  Conservative

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• We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. It’s also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, it’s an economic issue, not just an ecological one.

  Vandana Shiva

  Issues, People, Owl

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 29, 2011.

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• I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention. Inevitably, there were certain common denominators which are fairly common to all developing societies, perhaps to all societies: that quality education be accessible to everyone, not just a limited elite few; the sustainable conservation of natural resources; the full engagement of women in national development; and the value of cross-cultural exchange and understanding to international relations.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Country, Years, Understanding

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• The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.

  John N. Mitchell

  Country, Mean, Bird

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• You have to believe in happiness, or happiness never comes Ah, that's the reason a bird can sing - On his darkest day he believes in spring.

  Douglas Malloch

  Nature, Spring, Believe

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• Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.

  Carolyn Merchant

  Issues, Insightful, Environmental

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

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Sound, Management, Lost

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• By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.

  Thant Myint-U

  Uplifting, Thoughtful, Effort

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• We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

  Wallace Stegner

  Nature, Effort, Might

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• By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Mean, Tree

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• Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.

  Brenda Peterson

  Web Of Life, Vision, World

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• We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.

  Van Jones

  Opportunity, People, Giving

  Source: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.

  Jeff Corwin

  Children, Men, Opportunity

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• Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Kids, Rights, Support

  "Origin Interview: Diggin' Deep with Bonnie Raitt, Legend, Activist, Musician". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.

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• I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.

  Barton Seaver

  Believe, Goal, Environmental

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• I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.

  Edward Norton

  Spiritual, Strong, Father

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• From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

  Hugh Hammond Bennett

  Defense, Economic, Natural

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• We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.

  Mary Robinson

  Stress, School, Issues

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.

  Wendell Berry

  Commitment, Thinking, Agriculture

  Source: www.neh.gov

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