#conservation

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

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

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

But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil. ↗

— Jim Costa

#conservation #country #cutting #developing #ethanol

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

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

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

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

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

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