#conservation

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#children #conservation #energy #garden #i

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 is a preliminary belief that Tuolumne River water could be captured by other reservoirs that are downstream from Hetch Hetchy, the Cherry and Don Pedro reservoirs for instance. Furthermore, any shortfalls could be supplied via greater conservation efforts, newly discovered groundwater supplies, and water purchases when necessary. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#belief #captured #cherry #conservation #could

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#barrel #conservation #dangerous #decreases #each

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

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

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. ↗

— Gifford Pinchot

#earth #good #lasting #means #men

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

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. ↗

— David R. Brower

#club #conservation #earth #founded #friends