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“Wherever the Jew is found he is a problem, a source of unhappiness to himself and to those around him. Ever since he has been scattered in your midst he has had to maintain a continuous struggle for the conservation of his identity.”

Has Beens Problem Found Struggle Identity Source Jew Midst Unhappiness Conservation Gentiles Jewish Identity

Author:Maurice Samuel

“Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.”

Men Earth Environment Lows Blind Conservation Brows Save Mother Earth

Author:Ian McHarg

“Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.”

Heart Water Sea Planets Ocean Blue Strongest Conservation Our Planet Degradation Fragility Surfer Scuba Ocean Conservation Blue Ocean Scuba Divers

Author:Sylvia Earle

“I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.”

Inspirational Earth Environment Environmental Warrior Conservation Earth Day Environmentalist

Author:Darryl Cherney

“I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.”

Men Fighting Sea Ocean I Realized Conservation Behalf Urgent Ocean Conservation

Author:Alain Bombard

“A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve”

Ifs Humans Nature Environment Population Luxury Pockets Conservation Countryside Natural Environment Human Population

Author:Simon Barnes

“To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.”

Humans Two Values Three Space Diversity Add Environmental Currents Scales Traditional Urban Conservation Jane Imperatives Civics Jacob Regionalism

Book:Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

Source: Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

“The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.”

World Made Two States Political Politics Party Innovation Possession Divides Conservation

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Birds, it must be admitted, are the most exciting and most deserving of the vertebrates; they are perhaps the best entre into the study of natural history, and a very good wedge into conservation awareness.”

Natural Study Awareness Bird Exciting Very Good Conservation Deserving Natural History Wedges Vertebrates

Author:Roger Tory Peterson

“What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.”

Heart My Heart Dear Conservation Cooperatives Dear God

Author:Gale Norton

“Nothing is more conservative than conservation”

Conservative Conservation

Author:Russell Kirk

“But we must take other steps, such as increasing conservation, developing an ethanol industry, and increasing CAFE standards if we are to make our country safer by cutting our reliance on foreign oil.”

Ifs Country Steps Cutting Industry Standards Oil Our Country Developing Conservation Reliance Cafes Foreign Oil Ethanol

Author:Jim Costa

“I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.”

Source: An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

“We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence.”

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil.”

Helping America Energy Technology Policy Development Increase Productions Oil Developing Gas Conservation Prosperous Cleaners Energy Policy

Author:Greg Walden

“As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.”

Party Rich Proud Republican Legacy Conservation

Author:Robert Dold

“It was a Republican, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who first protected the Arctic Refuge to balance the oil development at Prudhoe Bay with responsible conservation.”

Firsts President Development Balance Republican Responsible Oil Protected Refuge Conservation Arctic Dwight Dwight D Eisenhower

Author:Robert Dold

“Conservation of energy also protects our environment.”

Energy Environment Protect Conservation Our Environment Energy Conservation

Author:Lamar S. Smith

“What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.”

Tree Bird Rivers Species Fishes Mechanism Protected Conservation Enforcement Nests Habitat Endangered Species Endangered Species Act

Author:Jay Inslee

“Saving the world requires saving democracy. That requires well-informed citizens. Conservation, environment, poverty, community, education, family, health, economy- these combine to make one quest: liberty and justice for all. Whether one's special emphasis is global warming or child welfare, the cause is the same cause. And justice comes from the same place being human comes from: compassion.”

Source: The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World

“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.”

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“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.”

People Environment Stronger Clean Believer Enterprise Pollution Conservation Free Enterprise Nature Conservation

Book:The conscience of a majority

Source: The conscience of a majority

“You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.”

World Should Heart Science Can Do Forget Emotion Involved Never Forget Relevant Conservation Do The Best Best Science

Author:George Schaller

“The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country.”

Ifs Mean Country Movement Bird Clean Communist Conservation Breeding Watchers

Author:John N. Mitchell

“Char Miller's lively, insightful account of the life and world of American forester Gifford Pinchot fills a vitally important gap in environmental and conservation history. Anyone captivated by the issues and controversies surrounding the preservation and development of the nation's natural heritage should read this engaging, carefully researched biography.”

World Should Important Nations Natural Issues Development Accounts Environmental Gaps Insightful Heritage Conservation Biographies Preservation Engaging Controversy Lively Captivated

Author:Carolyn Merchant

“Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.”

Believe Humans Today I Believe Fear Fate Rights Inspire Species Determine Determined Conservation

Book:100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species

Source: 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species

“Without sound conservation and management measures, fisheries will quickly become depleted and a basic component of global food security will be lost.”

Lost Sound Security Management Conservation Components Food Security Fisheries

Author:Sigmar Gabriel

“Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?”

Ifs Life Enough Nature Wonder Civilization Rivers Bases Environmental Wilderness Reverence Conservation Environmentalist Nature And Environment Reverence For Life

Author:Margaret Murie

“This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.”

Way Should Effort Land Management Cooperation Conservation Confrontation Hallmark

Author:Dirk Kempthorne

“By turns sad and uplifting, Life in the Valley of Death tells the amazing tale of Alan Rabinowitz's courageous and spirited efforts to protect Burma's (Myanmar's) remaining tigers and establish the Hukawng Valley Reserve. It is hard to imagine a more passionate or exciting account of today's conservation challenges, or a more thoughtful rendering of life, death, and politics in Burma's most remote corners.”

“We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.”

Might Nature Effort Species Conservation Great Effort Wildlife Conservation

Author:Wallace Stegner

“I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.”

Should Believe Goal Nature Support Species Fishes Protection Priorities Recovery Conservation Wildlife Top Priorities Wildlife Conservation Animal Conservation

Author:Dennis Cardoza

“By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.”

Way Mean Spiritual Moral Tree Landscape Wilderness Pollution Conservation Wildlife Regeneration

Author:E. F. Schumacher

“...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.”

People Hands Land Conservation Hand In Hand Wildlife Conservation Land Conservation

Book:Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

Source: Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945

“Cristina Eisenberg weaves her observations as a scientist and her personal experiences afield into a resonant account about the web of life that links humans to the natural world. Grounded in best science, inspired by her intimate knowledge of the wolves she studies, she offers us a luminous portrait of the ecological relationships that are essential for our well-being in a rapidly changing world. The Wolf's Tooth calls for a conservation vision that involves rewilding the earth and honoring all our relations.”

“After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.”

Matter Teaching Special Months Activity Projects Trade Court International Appeals Healthcare Conservation Fellowship Minnesota Consulting International Trade

Author:David Minge

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them”

Taken Environment Progress Wind Granted Sunset Conservation Taken For Granted Wild Things Land Conservation

Book:A Sand County Almanac

Source: A Sand County Almanac

“Conservation is now a dead word.”

Conservation

Author:Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.”

Trying Humans Happens Change Natural Example Consequence Visible Ecology Conservation Unintended Consequences

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“If we are bold in our thinking, courageous in accepting new ideas, and willing to work with instead of against our land, we shall find in conservation farming an avenue to the greatest food production the world has ever known - not only for the war, but for the peace that is to follow.”

Ifs Thinking World Ideas War Known Accepting Land Willing Productions Courageous New Ideas Conservation Farming Avenues Food Production

Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett

“The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the same horse, but rather the conservation of the horse's enjoyment, suppleness and finesse during the performance, which calls for comparison with the finest ballet, or performance of an orchestra, or seeing a play by Racine, so moving is the sight of perfectly unisoned movements.”

Art Different Play Moving Deals Seeing Air Movement Art Is Perfection Performances Sight Horse Enjoyment Comparison Ballet Finest Conservation Orchestra Exhibitions Finesse Equestrian Apex

Author:Nuno Oliveira

“The more our world functions like the natural world, the more likely we are to endure on this home that is ours, but not ours alone.”

World Inspirational Home Earth Mother Nature Change Natural Function Endure Changing The World Our World Conservation Natural World Mother Nature Biomimicry

Author:Janine Benyus

“We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.”

Men Reason Earth Christian Mother Nature Existence Crisis Environmental No Reason Rejects Scholar Ecology Conservation Mother Earth Axioms Save Mother Earth Ecological Crisis

Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

“And by the influence of heat, light, and electrical powers, there is a constant series of changes; matter assumes new forms, the destruction of one order of beings tends to the conservation of another; solution and consolidation, decay and renovation, are connected; and whilst the parts of the system continue in a state of fluctuation and change, the order and harmony of the whole remain unalterable.”

“In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.”

Middle Dangerous Oil East Middle East Conservation Aunt Reliance Decrease Barrels Unstable

Author:Paul Gillmor

“We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.”

Country Energy Commitment Burden Oil Meaningful Our Country Consumers Electricity Conservation Packages Comprehensive Relentless Dependency Grids Reliability Foreign Oil

Author:Paul Gillmor

“In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.”

Made Easy Rivers Environmental Made It Conservation

Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There

“Thus far we have considered the problem of conservation of land purely as an economic issue. A false front of exclusively economic determinism is so habitual to Americans in discussing public questions that one must speak in the language of compound interest to get a hearing.”

Problem Speak Language Interest Issues Economic Land Fronts Rivers Environmental Hearing Conservation Compounds Discussing Habitual Determinism Economic Issues Compound Interest

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Increasingly the evidence suggests that people benefit so much from contact with nature that land conservation can now be viewed as a public health strategy.”

People Nature Land Benefits Evidence Strategy Environmental Contact Conservation Public Health Land Conservation

Author:Richard Louv

“The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices.”

People Interest Natural Practice Resources Conservative Conservation Natural Resources Prevention

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

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