#conservation

The albatross hit the top and canted her soft belly to the storm, and made a screaming banked peel-out downwind and over the other side. I don't know if anyone else on the ship saw her. To me, she was a visitation. Not harbinger or annunciation, but a simple reminder of a wold that worked, that was at home with itself and friends with storm. ↗

— Peter Heller

#conservation #page- #home

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#conservation #earth #environment #greed #indulgence

...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#nature #page- #nature

In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048...The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse. ↗

— Peter Heller

#oceans #page- #science

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. ↗

— Tom Allen

#energy #energy independence #foundation #independence

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#barrel #conservation #dangerous #decreases #each

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#nature #sustainable-development #art

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. ↗

— J. D. Hayworth

#alternative #confront #conservation #facts #fuel

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#alleviating #burden #commitment #comprehensive #conservation

Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill. ↗

— Jim Costa

#bill #conservation #lacking #value