#conservation

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#earth #good #lasting #means #men

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#conservation #doing #finger #get #great

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #conservation #earth #founded #friends

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#conservation #excited #get #live #people

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. ↗

— Ron Kind

#big #big oil #collect #conservation #critical

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#cut #down #hypocrite #kind #make

Eating dinner with conservation biologists was like walking through a minefield of ethical decisions: grasslands have been overgrazed by steer raised for beef, and all cattle emit greenhouse gases though enteric fermentation; the poop from industrially raised chickens poisons the Chesapeake; the Amazon has been slashed and burned for soy--and don't even mention seafood. To this bunch of herpetologists, the sin of ordering shrimp lay in the bycatch--young fish, and especially sea turtles, caught in the nets and discarded, dead or dying. ↗

— Joe Roman

#food #food

Whatever! Go save a dolphin or something!" He whirled around. "It's a whale, Alex, a whale! That's what I'm interested in saving." I threw up my arms. "What's wrong with saving dolphins? ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#alex

We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want. ↗

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

#materialism #environmentalism