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Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. — Edward Norton

Stream is stream. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. — Paul Watson

I think it is far more important to save one square mile of wilderness, anywhere, by any means, than to produce another book on the subject. — Edward Abbey

Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. — Gifford Pinchot

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood and then mount the stump to make a speech for conservation. — Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. — Gale Norton

If it's unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is the rule of nature — Mollie Beattie

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found. — Napoleon Bonaparte

The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control on behavior. — Doris Bradbury

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. — Aldo Leopold

Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation. — Spencer Abraham

The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable. — William John Macquorn Rankine

I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. — Jerome Ringo

'Keeper' is about fathers, ultimately. and also conservation, commitment and ambition. — Mal Peet

His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust. — Robin Bielman

The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices. — Herbert Hoover

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever.
Ever, ever, ever. — Robin Bielman

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

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists. — Richard Dawkins

We know that when we protect our oceans we're protecting our future. — William J. Clinton

Conservation is humanity caring for the future. — Nancy Newhall

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. — John Green

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. — Sue Kelly

The love for God is the love to protect the environment. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. — Jack L. Chalker

It was a country ... that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve. — Wendell Berry

For every tree, we plant, we saves a life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands. — Louis Bacon

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it. — Isaac Asimov

To any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution. — Aldo Leopold

Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal. — Peter Allison

I want to go slow, baby, I really do," he whispered at the side of her neck. "But I'm not going to be able to this first time."
"Thank heavens. — Robin Bielman

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. — Aldo Leopold

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today. — Ted Nugent

God loves cleanliness.
The environment must be kept clean. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. — Dick Cheney

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle. — Klaus Topfer

I baptize you in the name of the conservation of energy. What comes around goes around. — Maile Meloy

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. — Mahatma Gandhi

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience. — Bindi Irwin

Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. — Arianna Huffington

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

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke

Conservation is the most important form of sustainability". — Abdulazeez Henry Musa

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve. — Arne Jacobsen

But if you wake up and are feeling....needy... — Terry Spear

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation. — Ian Somerhalder

The love for God is the love for nature. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Put on a sweater. — Jimmy Carter

Conservation just means that it does not change. — Richard Feynman

All I really want is for our world to become increasingly more beautiful. — Fennel Hudson

Like the resource it seeks to protect, wildlife conservation must be dynamic, changing as conditions change, seeking always to become more effective. — Rachel Carson

Everyone ought to plant a tree in their lifetime. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There are many beautiful toys on this earth. We must use them with care so that the next generation will find them intact and use them also. — Bangambiki Habyarimana

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

Save the trees! Return to the gold standard! — Ron Brackin

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. — Amory Lovins

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. — Edward M. Lerner

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade. — Steven Chu

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us. — Henry Ford

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles. — William F. Buckley Jr.

Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered. — Vladimir I. Vernadsky

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands. — George William Norris

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years. — Edward Norton

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

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down. — Winston S. Churchill

Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades. — James Lovelock

This book was written using 100% recycled words. — Terry Pratchett

That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create. — William Powers

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others — Theodore Roosevelt

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. — Theodore Roosevelt

Today humanity faces a stark choice: save the planet and ditch capitalism, or save capitalism and ditch the planet. — Fawzi Ibrahim

Let's stop fighting over who we believe created the planet, work together against those that choose to destroy it. — Jack Barker

Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on.
"Still breaking them?" she fired back. — Robin Bielman

Every man ought to plant a tree. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. — Gale Norton

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live. — Steve Irwin

There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers. — Milton Friedman

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself. — Mollie Beattie

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. — Charles Schumer

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. — Aldo Leopold

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. — Christopher Lasch

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. — Gifford Pinchot

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. — Adlai E. Stevenson II

Save the earth! Are you kidding?
If earth needs to save itself, we don't live now boasting about it. — Toba Beta

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. — David Attenborough

Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth. — Will Rogers

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — Edward O. Wilson

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. — Aldo Leopold

Nothing can ever fix nature' not even all monies in the world and money rules, are never worthy following. — Auliq Ice

A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets — Nash Buckingham

Nature, it seems, has a way of returning things to how they should be. — Fennel Hudson

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

Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies. — Robin Bielman

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. — Steve Irwin

Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson