Conservation

Conservation is the act of preserving, guarding or protecting; wise use.

Conservation may refer to:
* Conservation of biodiversity, environment, and natural resources, including protection and management
* Conservation of Cultural heritage or Art conservation, protection and restoration of cultural heritage, including works of art and architecture, as well as archaeological and historical artefacts
* Conservation law, measurable property of isolated physical system that does not change as the system evolves, including conservation of energy, mass, momentum, electric charge, subatomic particles, an ...more

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Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

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166 books — 45 voters

The Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor

Diversity in the Outdoors UK

13 books — 4 voters

The Fox and the Hound by Daniel P. Mannix

Books about Foxes

136 books — 47 voters

Reaktion Animal Books

106 books — 19 voters

Journey of the Pink Dolphins by Sy Montgomery

Waterfalls, Rivers, Steams, Lakes, and Ponds

166 books — 23 voters

The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Books Actually About Nature

119 books — 20 voters

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“ Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. ...more ”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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“ No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever called its feeling for its home place “biocentric” or “anthropocentric.” None has ever thought of its connection to its home place as “ecological,” deep or shallow. The concepts and insights of the ecologists are of great usefulness in our predicament, and we can hardly escape the need to speak of “ecology” and “ecosystems.” But the terms themselves are culturally sterile. They come from the juiceless, abstract intellectuality of the universities which was invented to disconnect, displace, and disembody the mind. The real names of the environment are the names of rivers and river valleys; creeks, ridges, and mountains; towns and cities; lakes, woodlands, lanes roads, creatures, and people. And the real name of our connection to this everywhere different and differently named earth is “work.” We are connected by work even to the places where we don’t work, for all places are connected; it is clear by now that we cannot exempt one place from our ruin of another. The name of our proper connection to the earth is “good work,” for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing. Good work is always modestly scaled, for it cannot ignore either the nature of individual places or the differences between places, and it always involves a sort of religious humility, for not everything is known. Good work can be defined only in particularity, for it must be defined a little differently for every one of the places and every one of the workers on the earth. The name of our present society’s connection to the earth is “bad work” – work that is only generally and crudely defined, that enacts a dependence that is ill understood, that enacts no affection and gives no honor. Every one of us is to some extent guilty of this bad work. This guilt does not mean that we must indulge in a lot of breast-beating and confession; it means only that there is much good work to be done by every one of us and that we must begin to do it. ...more ”
― Wendell Berry

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