258 Quotes About Conservation

So because you are converting it, you are actually conserving it.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe.

A photograph of a disposable diaper floating in the arctic miles away from human habitat fueled my daily determination to save at least one disposable diaper from being used and created. One cloth diaper after another, days accumulated into years and now our next child is using the cloth diapers we bought for our firstborn.

Save the trees! Return to the gold standard!

​It is Obscene to keep Printing Newspapers in the Digital Era

There are some things that, once lost, no amount of money can regain. Thus to justify the destruction of an ancient forest on the grounds that it will earn us substantial export income is problematic, even if we could invest that income and increase its value from year to year; for no matter how much we increase its value, its could never buy back the link with the past represented by the forest.

Just as we will spend large sums to preserve cities like Venice, even though future generations conceivably may not be interested in such architectural treasures, so we should preserve wilderness even though it is possible that future generations will care little for it.

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

The Holy Land is everywhere