#conservation

Conservation is now a dead word. ↗

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

#dead #now #word

If you don't have an ethic of conservation, you basically have a license to drive a Hummer through the Amazon. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#basically #conservation #drive #ethic #license

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

— Christopher Lasch

#central #conservation #environmentalism #innovation #makes

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

True conservation provides for wise use by the general public. The American people do not want our resources preserved for the exclusive use of the wealthy. These land and water resources belong to the people, and people of all income levels should have easy access to them. ↗

— George D. Aiken

#american #american people #belong #conservation #easy

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic. ↗

— Sue Kelly

#across #arsenic #clean #clean up #clean water

If we can teach people about wildlife, they will be touched. Share my wildlife with me. Because humans want to save things that they love. ↗

— Steve Irwin

#wildlife-conservation #love

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#inspirational #wilderness #inspirational

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. ↗

— Jack L. Chalker

#been #causes #conservation #historical #i

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. ↗

— Dirk Kempthorne

#conservation #cooperation #efforts #federal #hallmark