258 Quotes About Conservation

The challenge is clear: we have to conserve and improve the soil we have, and we need to turn dirt into soil wherever people need to grow food. That's true in America's breadbasket, it's true in the tropics, and it's true in the dry, hardscrabble, weathered soils that cover much of sub- Saharan Africa.

In general, the trend of the evidence indicates that in land, just as in the human body, the symptoms may lie in one organ and the cause in another. The practices we now call conservation are, to a large extent, local alleviations of biotic pain. They are necessary, but they must not be confused with cures. The art of land doctoring is being practiced with vigor, but the science of land health is yet to be born.

Nothing conserves like poverty.

No one in the world needs a Rhino horn but a Rhino.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry about our own.

All over the globe today, the environment is at odds with the economy, and the future of wildlife -- and our future, really -- is in the hands of lawmakers and world leaders. We have to choose who we're going to be, and what kind of world we want to leave behind for our children.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning that library without ever having read its books.

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.