Top 1200 Nature Conservation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.

The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.

We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.

Part of being conservative is judicious conservation of resources, both man-made and natural.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

If you're not willing to take the political heat, then you shouldn't get into the game of land conservation, especially on a large scale.

But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is, human nature, that in the nature which sinned he might make the expiation required.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

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

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

Nature's patterns sometimes reflect two intertwined features: fundamental physical laws and environmental influences. It's nature's version of nature versus nurture.

Conservation viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land.

Conservation is not without its critics and opposition. There are a lot of special interests that don't want to see land set aside.

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade.

I'm for conservation, but it's mostly a con. That's the trouble. It's sentimental. Buy an elephant a drink, a lion an acre.

Sex is probably one of the last forms of human expression to enjoy such a direct connection with nature. It might be the primary site of conflict between nature and culture. If one assumes that nature (or instinct) is repressed in a highly civilised society, then I think the conceptual dyad nature-culture is best preserved there, in the realm of sex.

Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with coherence. Ecosystems react with their own logic.

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

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

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

I think very early on, my sisters and I understood the value of nature and what it can do for us, and that we are part of nature. Even if we are all seemingly intelligent beings and we're at the top of the food chain, that doesn't mean that we have to remove ourselves from nature.

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

And when you, O human, will return to Nature, that day your eyes will open, you will stare straight into the eyes of Nature and in its mirror you will see your image. You will knowthat when you hid from Nature, you hid from yourselfWe who have been turned away from Nature - if we desire life, we must establish a new relationship with Nature.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

Enthusiasm for conservation can be fashioned into a nasty weapon for those who dislike business on general principles.

It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

Climate change has completely overshadowed the conservation concerns that used to be so important to the Democratic Party.

I'm involved very actively with three conservation charities, because I'm passionate about animals.

If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

It's from love and knowledge of nature that any sensible understanding must come. Technology is essentially antagonistic to nature - that in fact is why it's created, to do something to or with nature that wasn't there before, that wasn't natural.

Let God operate in thee; Hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.

The United Nations Award for India's efforts in the field of environment conservation has made every Indian proud.

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

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

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

Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest.

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

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man.

The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.

In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

My work is about the underbelly of the beauty of nature - and the dark side of nature is its indifference. Nature isn't friendly, nor is it unfriendly - it's the perfect embodiment of the Other.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Traditionally, in the Eastern World, man and nature are close: men find happiness and prosperity in the beauty of nature, even if the nature is actually built to match this very need.

We are literally linked in a circle, including with nature, as well as with other human beings. Old societies didn't have and still don't have "he" and "she." They don't have gendered pronouns. They don't have a word for nature, because we're not separate from nature.

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.

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

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

I see my filming career as an opportunity to get the message of conservation out to an even greater audience.

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

According to quantum mechanics there is no such thing as objectivity. We cannot eliminate ourselves from the picture. We are part of nature, and when we study nature there is no way around the fact that nature is studying itself.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Nature. As the word is now commonly used it excludes nature's most interesting productions-the works of man. Nature is usually taken to mean mountains, rivers, clouds and undomesticated animals and plants. I am not indifferent to this half of nature, but it interests me much less than the other half.

Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

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