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“Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.”

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Author:Aloo Denish Obiero

“From an environmental point of view I have always believed that some of our native hardy breeds of cattle, such as Highlanders and Galloways, could be used in many nature conservation areas to replicate the activities of the ancient ox. This would be especially true if they were bred back to be capable of surviving all year round on natural vegetation, and were not to receive supplementary feeding or medicines.”

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Book:Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

Source: Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways

“Conservation is in a bad way because it has failed to see the whole of communities and the many concentric circles of wholes they contain; it has failed to see that management is a partnership based in community and not a dictatorship based in control; and, if I can go this far, it has failed because it never learned how to stop, to see, and to speak the language of the wind—it has never learned to be wild like flowers.”

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Book:Wild Like Flowers

Source: Wild Like Flowers

“The poor Ferns, like the wolves in olden time, have a price set upon their heads, and they in like manner will soon disappear. We must have "Fern Laws", and preserve them like game.”

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Book:Hardy Ferns: How I Collected and Cultivated Them

Source: Hardy Ferns: How I Collected and Cultivated Them

“The greatest evil the world has ever done is killing nature after consuming from its generous hands.”

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Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“When you begin to learn how to not hunt birds, nor trample on plants, then you are ready to save humanity.”

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Book:These Words Pour Like Rain

Source: These Words Pour Like Rain

“To move conservation forward—to move toward ethics and regeneration and holism—we must first learn to see so that we can learn how to speak so that we can learn how to know better.”

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Book:Wild Like Flowers

Source: Wild Like Flowers

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.”

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

Source: Land of the Spotted Eagle

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.”

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“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.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

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Book:Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

Source: Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt

“What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.”

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Author:Mollie Beattie

“The earth will continue to regenerate its life sources only as long as we and all the peoples of the world do our part to conserve its natural resources. It is a responsibility which every human being shares. Through voluntary action, each of us can join in building a productive land in harmony with nature.”

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Author:Gerald R. Ford

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.”

Source: The Yosemite

“Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.”

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Author:David Gerrold

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.”

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

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

“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 cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”

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Author:Francis Bacon

“It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.”

“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.”

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

Source: Round River

“Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.”

“For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.”

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

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Book:The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Source: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.”

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”

“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.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

Source: The Wilderness World of John Muir

“There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.”

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”

“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 universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.”

Source: Cosmos

“We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.”

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Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.”

Source: 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 ...

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

“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.”

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”

“To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”

“And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.”