Nature Conservation Quotes

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

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

    "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

    Theodore Roosevelt (1955). “Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist”
  • It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

    Sympathy   Men   Law  
    Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.52, Heron Dance 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.
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

    Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.96, Oxford University Press, USA
  • Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.337
  • And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.

    Beach   Sunset   Loss  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face

    Dream   Nature   Bird  
    John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”
  • Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  • Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

    Life   Strength   Beauty  
    John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.814, Library of America
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

    Wisdom   Nature   Autumn  
    Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898
  • The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

    John Muir, Edwin Way Teale, Henry Bugbee Kane (2001). “The Wilderness World of John Muir”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171
  • Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  • 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”
  • Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

    Nature   Men   Land  
    Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.145, Oxford University Press
  • How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

    Wall   Men   Wind  
    "Aviation, Geography, and Race". Reader's Digest, pp. 64-67, November 1939.
  • I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  • The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

    Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press
  • There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

    Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield
  • Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage
  • In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

    "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,
  • God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

    Simple   Men   Earth Life  
    Reader's Digest, July 1972.
  • It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

    Nature   Fall   Swans  
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

    Peace   Nature   Sunshine  
    Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898
  • While I am a great believer in the free enterprise system and all that it entails, I am an even stronger believer in the right of our people to live in a clean and pollution-free environment.

    Barry Morris Goldwater (1970). “The conscience of a majority”, Prentice Hall
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