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“I like to get into a lot of things besides movies. I've been very involved with a few specific efforts. We built this park in New York and it's been a very successful project... I worked on a conservation project in East Africa... Too much of this type of stuff can get you wrapped up in your own work and I love it.”

Stuff Effort Successful Too Much New York Type Involved Projects Built East Parks Conservation East Africa

Author:Edward Norton

“Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.”

Mind Humans Born Fire Human Mind Conservation Prudence No Hope

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)

“...to any one for whom wild things are something more than a pleasant diversion, (conservation) constitutes one of the milestones in moral evolution.”

Moral Evolution Pleasant Conservation Diversion Milestone Wild Things

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)

“There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.”

Ifs Want Turns Fighting Victory Species Conservation Habitat

Author:George Schaller

“The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust.”

Wells States Whole Body Political Moral Members Well Being Conservation Unjust

Book:Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

Source: Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract

“I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step.”

Firsts Bigs Steps Majors Organization African American Conservation Chairman

Author:Jerome Ringo

“One of the challenges of educating especially poor people of any color on conservation and environmental issues is that poor people have a list of priorities that are more immediate quality of life issues.”

People Challenges Poor Quality Issues Color Environmental Lists Priorities Conservation Poor People Quality Of Life Environmental Issues

Author:Jerome Ringo

“There are parliamentarians in Australia I really support. People through history, you know? Men like Ned Kelly in Australia who challenged ideals. Governor William McKell in Australia really set the tone of building a nation. The fundamentals of the country are built on what the governor McKell created. I think Sea Shepherd (Conservation Society) is a wonderful organization and I support what they do.”

People Thinking Knows Men Country Nations Support Wonderful Sea Building Built Ideals Organization Fundamentals Tone Australia Governors Know Me Conservation Shepherds

Author:Dustin Clare

“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."”

“It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.”

Men Found Safety Conservation Audacity Steadfastness

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.”

People Knows Wells Ideas Principles England Improvement Conservation Inheritance Transmission

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Source: .) (1853).

“See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.”

Hero Dad My Dad Legends Mates Conservation Phenomenal Jacques Cousteau

Author:Steve Irwin

“There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.”

World Important Religious Views Scientist Point Of View Conservation

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.”

Ifs Humans Facts Universe Importance Strive Enterprise Immense Conservation Novelty Marginalized

Author:Terence McKenna

“Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.”

Cents Conservation Hunters Crocodiles Crocs

Author:Steve Irwin

“I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.”

Believe Moments Use I Believe Future Propaganda Conservation Wildlife Wildlife Conservation Animal Conservation Apex Predators

Author:Steve Irwin

“So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.”

People Excited Conservation Tactics Predator Apex Apex Predators

Author:Steve Irwin

“I am asserting that those who love the wilderness should not be wholly deprived of it, that while the reduction of the wilderness has been a good thing, its extermination would be a very bad one, and that the conservation of wilderness is the most urgent and difficult of all the tasks that confront us, because there are no economic laws to help and many to hinder its accomplishment.”

Should Has Beens Helping Would Be Law Difficult Economic Tasks Good Things Accomplishment Wilderness Conservation Deprived Urgent Reduction Hinder Extermination

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.”

Done Wanted Environment Mars Conservation

Author:Arne Jacobsen

“All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.”

World Enough Faces Effort Planets Crisis Sustainability Conservation Our Planet

Author:Naveen Jain

“'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet.”

People Littles Self Matter Water Too Much Planets Pride Green Teeth Conservation Our Planet Adoration Commendable Save Our Planet Too Much Pride

Author:Naveen Jain

“I feel vulnerable when I have no choice. It segues into every facet of life, whether it's love, work, family, or conservation. Here it is: the whole reason that I started the Ian Somerhalder Foundation was the feeling of complete vulnerability during the BP oil spill.”

Feels Reason Whole Feelings Choices Foundation Oil Vulnerable Vulnerability Conservation Spills Facets Oil Spill Work Family

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“Water conservation goes hand in hand with education. Teaching people that if you literally run the water while you brush your teeth - we go through 602 million gallons a day of waste in the United States because people are used to hearing the water run while they brush their teeth.”

People Ifs States Hands Running Used Water United Millions United States Teaching Waste Hearing Teeth Conservation Brushes Hand In Hand Gallons Water Conservation

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Self Values I Believe Views Students Survival Inevitable Characteristics Biology Pessimism Fulfilling Conservation

Author:Denis Hayes

“The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!”

Use Energy Office Solutions Vote Climate Climate Change Carbon Conservation Consuming Energy Conservation Climate Change Deniers

Author:Wesley K. Wark

“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. Its also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, its an economic issue, not just an ecological one.”

“I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.”

People Writing Made Government Law Water Car Sight Neighbor Penalties Conservation Suggestions Restriction Washing Mayors Constituents Water Conservation

Author:Gail Collins

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

Nature Environment Command Ecology Conservation Our Environment Mother Earth Natural Environment Obeying Nature And Environment Save Mother Earth Nature Conservation World Environment Save The Environment Save Nature Saving The Earth Social Environment Changing Environment

Author:Francis Bacon

“It is an unfortunate fact that those people who are most eloquent in their demand for the conservation of animals are often those most eager to violate animal life at the first opportunity.”

People Firsts Facts Opportunity Animal Demand Hunting Unfortunate Conservation Eloquent Animal Life

Book:Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

Source: Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals

“There are scarcities in drinking water when you pollute the groundwater with nitrates. There is a scarcity in diversity when you create huge cornfields with the same strain of corn so that when one disease strikes - which happened in the United States in the 70s - all the cornfields in the country are wiped out. That was the first time the U.S. realized the value of diversity in agriculture and began to discuss genetic resources and their conservation.”

“We need to invest in clean energy technologies. We need to rush them to market while rebuilding our energy networks intelligently. And it's imperative that we push toward a cultural shift away from energy waste to respectful conservation with fierce commitment that will carry us to the other side.”

Needs Energy Sides Technology Waste Commitment Clean Fierce Conservation Imperatives Respectful Rebuilding Clean Energy

Author:Jayni Chase

“I have been asked so many times why I live a green life, why water conservation, why getting wells in places, why work with water organizations, why conserve water at home with double-flush toilets, why I tell my daughters, "Turn off the tap" so much. Sometimes I want to say, "I wish I knew the answer." My answer really is: I don't understand why everyone doesn't feel this way.”

Way Want Feels Wells Has Beens Sometimes Home Turns Wish Water Answers Daughter Organization Green My Daughter Conservation Toilets Turn Off Get Well Water Conservation

Author:Alysia Reiner

“Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.”

Made Movement Musician Environmental Incredibles Contribution Conservation

Author:Paul Watson

“For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.”

People Use Jobs Grows Natural Economy Succeed Models Resources Embrace Species Conservation Wildlife Natural Resources Iconic

Author:David Jeremiah Barron

“Leibniz mapped the principles concerning the conservation of energy, but nobody has yet scientifically diagrammed the conservation of emotion - have they? How is this subsumed pain vented? Is it released in my art? I hope so, but I also suspect that it's emitted in my sleep.”

Art Pain Energy Sleep Emotion Principles Suspects Conservation Energy Conservation

Author:Keith Murray

“I spent the first years working in Jordan trying to learn as much as I could about what was taking place in the country, about where there were gaps in the development process that needed attention. Inevitably, there were certain common denominators which are fairly common to all developing societies, perhaps to all societies: that quality education be accessible to everyone, not just a limited elite few; the sustainable conservation of natural resources; the full engagement of women in national development; and the value of cross-cultural exchange and understanding to international relations.”

“I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.”

Men Children Persons Whole Opportunity Given Lines Security Fronts Protect Species Inspired Financial Riches Whole Life Conservation Given Up

Author:Jeff Corwin

“I am passionate about exploring the confluence of environmental and human health. I believe that the goals of conservation must constantly revisit a stated purpose.”

Believe Humans Purpose I Believe Goal Environmental Passionate Exploring Conservation Human Health Confluence

Author:Barton Seaver

“I come from a family of conservation activists, and so I've had a strong connection to nature all my life. My father has been a leader within the movement for over thirty years and has taught most of what I know about environmental conservation. While he would always take me hiking, camping, and rafting, he also taught me that the spiritual value of the outdoors alone is not enough to save nature against economic interests.”

“Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.”

Reason Kids Parent Support Rights Movement Involved Raised Civil Rights Activist Conservation Quaker

Author:Bonnie Raitt

“Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V.”

Optimism Conservation Delta

Book:Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse

Source: Abaddon's Gate: Book 3 of the Expanse

“From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.”

Should Social Natural Economic Resources Agree Defense Objectives Conservation Angle Natural Resources Public Health National Defense

Author:Hugh Hammond Bennett

“The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.”

Use Understanding Economic Land Dangerous Prove Intention Dues Conservation Good Intentions Lack Of Understanding Land Use

Author:Aldo Leopold

“We tend to overlook the fact that a mature clean energy economy in fact will give an opportunity to ordinary people to earn more money as clean energy workers/entrepreneurs - and save more money, through conservation and energy efficiency.”

People Giving Facts Opportunity Energy Economy Ordinary Entrepreneur Clean Workers Mature More Money Efficiency Conservation Ordinary People Clean Energy Energy Efficiency

Author:Van Jones

“People in red states and blue states can agree that we are a nation blessed with extraordinary natural wealth and beauty, which we would be foolish to waste; therefore conservation and efficiency are values we all can share.”

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Author:Van Jones

“I grew up in a whaling town. We didn't stop whaling in Australia until 1978. And I've always lived in fishing communities. You could say I'm from the Redneck Wing of marine conservation. Everything I know about the sea I learnt at the end of a spear or a hook. Seems weird to admit it, but I hunted and killed my way to enlightenment. Eventually you see where you've been. All the traces you leave are gaps and absences. And it's a sick feeling, knowing you might bequeath a full dose of Nothing to those who come after you.”

Knows Way Ends Feelings Seems Might Community Knowing Sea Grew Grew Up Enlightenment Sick Towns Wings Absence My Way Australia Fishing Gaps Conservation Hook Marine Redneck Dose Spears Hunted

Author:Tim Winton

“We must encourage energy conservation and sustainable development. Young people are the ones who are most environmentally conscious in Ireland, so that to some extent they are educating their parents. They are tackling issues of waste disposal and so on. The schools help, because they put a lot of stress on environmental awareness.”

“I hear from readers a good deal, and I try to answer every letter. I think, because of my commitment to issues of conservation and good agriculture and peaceableness, they find something hopeful in my work.”

Thinking Trying Answers Deals Issues Reader Commitment Letters Hopeful Agriculture Conservation

Author:Wendell Berry

“The rural economy is significantly better. Our natural resources, particularly our working lands, are more resilient. And more money is being invested in soil conservation and water preservation. Our forests will be in better shape if Congress does what it needs to do to fix the fire-suppression budget.”

Water Natural Economy Conservation Natural Resources Resilient

Author:Tom Vilsack

“There are a lot of Egyptians who live below the poverty line and are preoccupied with meeting basic needs. Therefore, we have to create tangible benefits from nature conservation. Only through economic incentives will we convince people to protect habitats, wildlife, geological formations, cultural heritage sites, etc. We need local communities to cooperate with us, not against us!”

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Author:Mindy Baha El Din

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