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Conservation is now a dead word. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Conservation of energy also protects our environment. -- Lamar S. Smith
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land. -- Aldo Leopold
Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. -- Tom Allen
I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment. -- Steve Irwin
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men -- Gifford Pinchot
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. -- Adlai E. Stevenson
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources. -- Ron Kind
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace -- Gifford Pinchot
Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side. -- John W. Snow
The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. -- Karl Marx
I did not establish the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society as a protest organisation. -- Paul Watson
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world's natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen. -- Peter Eisenman
Conservation must become before recreation. -- Prince Charles
Conservation is humanity caring for the future. -- Nancy Newhall
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation is not just an ideal that we read about; it works. -- Roger Tory Peterson
Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses. -- Peter Beard
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent. -- Steve Irwin
Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest. -- Aldo Leopold
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. -- E. O. Wilson
Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival. -- Dalai Lama
Conservation is the application of common sense to the common problems for the common good. -- Gifford Pinchot
People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile. -- David Attenborough
Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men. -- Gifford Pinchot
Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources. -- J. D. Hayworth
Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution. -- Aldo Leopold
Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land. -- Aldo Leopold
I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America. -- Jeff Bridges
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress. -- Sue Kelly
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down. -- Paul Johnson
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy. -- Dick Cheney
Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. -- Rachel Carson
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture. -- Gaylord Nelson
The debris of civilization litters the landscapes and spoils the beaches. Conservation's concerns now is not only for man's enjoyment-but for man's survival. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. -- Theodore Roosevelt
What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow. -- Aldo Leopold
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day -- Gifford Pinchot
Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector. -- Sheherazade Goldsmith
Growing up during the Depression, I worked for the Forest Service and CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). I tend to work very, very hard. I wouldn't change that for anything. -- Raymond Burr
World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. -- Gifford Pinchot
A lot of designers still have nostalgia for the past. As for the furniture in the future, I hope they use less of real wood. Conservation in wood is necessary. -- Elsa Peretti
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...More important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down. -- Winston Churchill
Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor. -- Corneille Ewango
[Conservation] Barring that, just yell at people randomly to stop killing whales. It could catch on. Really.("Would you like fries with that?""Shut up and stop killing whales!""Thank you. Drive through, please.")" -- Christopher Moore
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. -- Greg Walden
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society recognizes that the deaths of four sealers is a tragedy, but Sea Shepherd also recognizes that the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups is an even greater tragedy. -- Paul Watson
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. -- George Schaller
In December 2012, the U.S. 9th district court granted a temporary injunction to the Japanese whalers that ordered the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society U.S.A. to not approach within 500 yards of the whaling vessels. -- Paul Watson
It is the duty of every citizen, for his own welfare, if for no other patriotic reason, to support and fight for and possibly initiate measures having to do with conservation of soil, water and forests. -- Louis Bromfield
By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm. -- Gore Vidal
They are a fairly aggressive conservation organization that was started to protect the great whales particularly, but in general all marine life around the world. So those are the people I'm trying to attach my name to. -- Richard Dean Anderson
I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that. -- David R. Brower
Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other. -- Spider Robinson
Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future. -- Theodore Roosevelt
A land ethic...reflects the existence of an ecological conscience, and this in turn reflects a conviction of individual responsibility for the health of the land. Health is the capacity of the land for self-renewal. Conservation is our effort to understand and preserve this capacity. -- Aldo Leopold
Conservation is sometimes perceived as stopping everything cold, as holding whooping cranes in higher esteem than people. It is up to science to spread the understanding that the choice is not between wild places or people, it is between a rich or an impoverished existence for Man. -- Thomas Lovejoy
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. -- Theodore Roosevelt
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation. -- Gale Norton
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency. -- Gifford Pinchot
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. -- Edmund Burke
So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live. -- Steve Irwin
One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed. -- Edward M. Lerner
Wealth brings with it refinement, the spirit of conservation, while poverty inspires adventurous ideas, the desire to change things, and has little care for life. -- Jose Rizal
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day. -- Gifford Pinchot
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. -- Li Keqiang
By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. -- Ron Lewis
Our livelihood is intimately tied to the food we eat, water we drink and places where we recreate. That's why we have to promote responsibility and conservation when it comes to our natural resources. -- Mark Udall
I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation. -- Ted Danson
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. -- Sylvia Earle
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world's most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink. -- Eric Burdon
I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind. -- Jimmy Carter
Years ago, it was pretty hard to get people to empathize even a little bit with scaly, cold-blooded critters; now, thanks a lot to good PR from television, it is easier to get the message of reptile conservation and tolerance across. We have a lot to be thankful to reptiles for, not the least of which is their control of rodents. -- Romulus Whitaker
Nothing is more conservative than conservation -- Russell Kirk
Optimism expressed as conservation of delta V. -- James S.A. Corey
Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production. -- Veerappa Moily
Life should be built on the conservation of energy. -- Herbert M. Shelton
I'm a little different from all those conservation types. -- Jim Fowler
In conservation, the motto should always be 'never say die'. -- Gerald Durrell
Local conservation programs can help our communities shape thoughtful growth. -- Will Rogers
The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency -- Gifford Pinchot
The skilled observer, not the machine, was the essence of conservation. -- Robert M Edsel
You don't have a conservation policy unless you have a population policy. -- David R. Brower
In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial. -- Aldo Leopold
...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. -- Christopher Lasch
I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls. -- John Green
There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country. -- Theodore Roosevelt
As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation. -- Robert Dold
I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert. -- Edward Norton
I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes. -- Jack L. Chalker
A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets -- Nash Buckingham
Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation. -- Arianna Huffington
I am the first African-American chairman of any major conservation organization in history. That's a big step. -- Jerome Ringo
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. -- Gale Norton
Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment. -- Walther Bothe
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means. -- William Howard Taft
Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example. -- Veerappa Moily
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time. -- Gifford Pinchot
A flower blooms in my heart. You may call that love, but I call it water conservation. -- Jarod Kintz
Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear. -- Aldo Leopold
Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people. -- Edward Norton
This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts. -- Dirk Kempthorne
The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong. -- John Muir
Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever. -- Paul Watson
We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle. -- Klaus Topfer
The people have a vital interest in the conservation of their natural resources; in the prevention of wasteful practices. -- Herbert Hoover
Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism. -- Jimmy Carter
In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil. -- Paul Gillmor

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