Conservation Quotes

"Endangered species are our friends."

"Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved."

Jane Goodall

"No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced."

David Attenborough

"When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again."

William Beebe

"Circling the Earth in the orbital spaceship, I marveled at the beauty of our planet. People of the world! Let us safeguard and enhance this beauty – not destroy it!"

“We have to understand in value what the services of nature are, so that we can understand that degrading them is an irreplaceable resource that no amount of money or human ingenuity can replace.”

“I don't do celebrity endorsements. My work with Conservation International is a good use of whatever celebrity I might have to draw attention to important problems.”

“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.”

"In wildness is the preservation of the world."

"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."

Aldo Leopold

"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?"

"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."

Rachel Carson

"We have fallen heirs to the most glorious heritage a people ever received, and each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees."

"People protect what they love."

Jacques Cousteau

"Leave it as it is. You cannot improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it."

Theodore Roosevelt

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

Dr. Seuss

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

Stewart Udall

“No one will protect what they don't care about; and no one will care about what they have never experienced.”

David Attenborough

“The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.”

Theodore Roosevelt

“When the well's dry, we know the worth of water.”

“Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed.”

Wallace Stegner

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

John James Audubon

“Conservation means the greatest good to the greatest number for the longest time.”

Gifford Pinchot

“You never miss the water till the well runs dry.”

English Proverb