Conservation Quotes

"I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world." "We should protect nature and preserve the environment like we protect our eyes" "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed" "He who talks more is sooner exhausted." "Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle" "Our ideals, laws, and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources." "We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children" "The world is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations" "We won't have a society if we destroy the environment." "The environment is everyone's responsibility." "Waste not want not" "We're so self-important. Everybody's going to save something now. "Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails." And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves yet. We're gonna save the fucking planet?" "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong" "In wildness is the preservation of the world" "A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people" "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "The animals of the planet are in desperate peril. Without free animal life, I believe we will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen." "Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations" "We are defined not only by what we create but what we refuse to destroy." "We must start acting today to preserve tomorrow"