#conservation

When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, the turkey and so forth and so forth, I cannot but feel as if I lived in a tamed and, as it were, emasculated country... Is it not a maimed and imperfect nature I am conversing with? As if I were to study a tribe of Indians that had lost all it's warriors...I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring, for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before me and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#conservation #earth #nature #woods #nature

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California. ↗

— Gray Davis

#building #california #companies #conservation #doing

...there were only fifteen thousand polar bears in the world, and five billion of me. To let one of them devour my all-too-common flesh would, if only slightly, help adjust the grievous imbalance. ↗

— Lawrence Millman

#nature #page- #nature

In the November 2006 issue of Science, a report by an international team of scientists studying a vast amount of data gathered between 1950 and 2003 declared that if current trends of fishing and pollution continue, every fishery in the world's oceans will collapse by 2048...The oceans as an ecosystem would completely collapse. ↗

— Peter Heller

#oceans #page- #science

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. ↗

— Tom Allen

#energy #energy independence #foundation #independence

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 an American value, and it is lacking from this bill. ↗

— Jim Costa

#bill #conservation #lacking #value

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

— Robert Dold

#conservation #i #i am #legacy #party

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

I'm a little different from all those conservation types. ↗

— Jim Fowler

#different #i #little #those #types