#conservation

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

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The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

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Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion. ↗

— Carl Safina

#ecology #environment #education

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

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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

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation. ↗

— Robert Dold

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It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation. ↗

— Robert Dold

#balance #bay #conservation #development #dwight

Conservation is now a dead word. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#dead #now #word

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

— Christopher Lasch

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