#conservation

Maybe we’ll live to see sharks recover. Right now, that seems as improbable as seeing all these falcons. Hope is the ability to see how things could be better. The world of human affairs has long been a shadowy place, but always backlit by the light of hope. Each person can add hope to the world. A resigned person subtracts hope. The more people strive, the more change becomes likely. ↗

— Carl Safina

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Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation. ↗

— Adlai Stevenson

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We continue to still cut down the tree's of this world, despite having nailed one 2000 years ago. ↗

— Moses Pereira

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. ↗

— Gray Davis

#building #california #companies #conservation #doing

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil. ↗

— Greg Walden

#came #cleaner #competitive #conservation #developing

...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

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

— J. D. Hayworth

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