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“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

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Author:Jim Fowler

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

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Author:Jim Fowler

“The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.”

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Author:Gifford Pinchot

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

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Author:Mollie Beattie

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”

“I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.”

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Author:Bindi Irwin

“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

“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.”

“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

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”

Source: 1976: Agenda for Tomorrow

“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.”

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Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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

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

“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.”

“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”

Source: Silent Spring

“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.”

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

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Book:The Practice of the Wild

Source: The Practice of the Wild

“To those devoid of imagination a blank place on the map is a useless waste; to others, the most valuable part.”

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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)

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”