Conservation Quotes

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

Conservation is now a dead word.

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

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

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

A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

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.

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.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.

Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.

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.

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

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.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

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.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

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.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.

The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

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.

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.