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  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy.

    Nature   War   Simplicity  
    Wendell Berry (2001). “In the Presence of Fear: Three Essays for a Changed World”
  • And perhaps this has to do with what I sense is a turning away from the idea of religion as being about conserving a certain heritage from the past towards religion as having to do with how we orientate ourselves to the future, to all we truly long for, to hope.

    Past   Ideas   Long  
    "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
  • If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

    Sacrifice   Church   Doe  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation
  • He's treating her like she's fourteen and he's a normal adult, acting like he's taken her under his wing. Like he needs her detecting skills, same as Barrons did to Mac, and she's falling for it, same as Mac. He's lining up his dominoes, so they fall more easily when he feels like pushing them over, conserving energy so he doesn't have to hunt her when he's ready to kill her.

    Taken   Fall   Skills  
    Karen Marie Moning (2012). “Iced: Fever Series”, p.122, Delacorte Press
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.

    "Q&A With Sir Richard Branson: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2013.
  • To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

    Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service
  • What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  • A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

    Flower   Men   Roots  
    "The Evolution of Words and Meanings", The Illustrated London News, July 3, 1920.
  • Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

    Ocean   Air   Aquariums  
  • I also want to thank Arizona citizens for their efforts at conserving energy last summer.

    Summer   Effort   Energy  
  • Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

    Robertson Davies (1949). “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”, Clarke, Irwin
  • Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

    Source: www.motherjones.com
  • We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

    A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)
  • I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

    Defense   World   Littles  
    Joseph Farah (2007). “Stop the Presses!: The Inside Story of the New Media Revolution”, p.65, WND Books
  • Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

  • Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.

    Beach   Ocean   Simple  
    "Ocean Ambassadors pledge drive launched". www.cnn.com. September 23, 1998.
  • The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  • We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea that serves as the touchstone of what it means to be an American. This America is the only America that we have hitherto known - if being conservative has anything to do with conserving the principles of our past, then no conservative has any business bashing legal immigration.

    Daughter   Mean   Son  
  • Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.

    Mean   Gun   Self  
    "Just a girl with a gun; not a gratuitous killer". praag.org. November 25, 2013.
  • We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I think romantic love evolved to enable you to focus your mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy.

  • Cultivating and conserving diversity is no luxury in our times: it is a survival imperative.

    Vandana Shiva (2005). “Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace”, p.94, Zed Books
  • Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

  • The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  • Morality, like language, is an invented structure for conserving and communicating order. And morality is learned, like language, by mimicking and remembering.

    Jane Rule (2013). “Lesbian Images: Essays”, p.20, Open Road Media
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