#conservation

To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #wilderness #imagination

Management" of anything as complicated as a woods requires more humility than comes easily to our species, at least in its American incarnation. ↗

— Bill McKibben

#environmentalism #humility #woods #environmentalism

There is no such thing as a man-eating shark, only shark-eating men exist. ↗

— Melissa Haynes

#shark-conservation #sharkfin-soup #men

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

#culture #environmental #environmental issue #ethic #important

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed? ↗

— Solomon Short

#another #conservation #energy #fittest #hero

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home ↗

— Tahir Shah

#nature #home

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

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. ↗

— Peter Golkin

#bicycles #bike #bikes #conservation #favorite

Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints! ↗

— Chief Seattle

#conservation #nature #quote #nature

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#conservations #endangered-species #exploration #history #the-west