258 Quotes About Conservation

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores.

When you look a wild animal in the eye, it's like catching a glimpse into the soul of nature itself

Thus always does history, whether of marsh or market place, end in paradox. The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wildness left to cherish.

It takes a while to spoil a world, but it can be done.

Nature invites you to love her in its simplicity of beauty.

Nature bears witness to sacred beauty.

This world is not here for you; you are here for it.

When man has finally fulfilled his death wish by wiping out anything that breathes, including himself, Pan will return to a world made innocent again.

The diversity of life forms, so numerous that we have yet to identify most of them, is the greatest wonder on this planet.