Environmental Conservation Quotes

“Because, underneath all of this is the real truth we have been avoiding: climate change isn’t an “issue” to add to the list of things to worry about, next to health care and taxes. It is a civilizational wake-up call. A powerful message—spoken in the language of fires, floods, droughts, and extinctions—telling us that we need an entirely new economic model and a new way of sharing this planet. Telling us that we need to evolve.”
― Naomi Klein

“The world has a very serious problem, my friend' Shiva went on. 'Poor children still die by their millions. Westerners and the global rich -- like me -- live in post-scarcity society, while a billion people struggle to get enough to eat. And we're pushing the planet towards a tipping point, where the corals die and the forests burn and life becomes much, much harder. We have the resources to solve those problems, even now, but politics and economics and nationalism all get in the way. If we could access all those minds, though...”
― Ramez Naam, Crux

“We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth.”
― Zephyr McIntyre

“This sweet virginal primitive land will metaphorically breathe a sigh of relief --like a whisper of wind--when we are all and finally gone and the place and its creations can return to their ancient procedures unobserved and undisturbed by the busy, anxious, brooding consciousness of man.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“Water, water, water... There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount...unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

“If I could go back to a point in history to try to get things to come out differently, I would go back and tell moses to go up the mountain again and get the other tablet. Because the Ten Commandments just tell us what we are supped to do with one another, not a word about our relationship to the earth. Genesis starts with these commands: multiply, replenish the earth, and subdue it. We have multiplied very well, we have replenished our populations very well, we have subdued it all too well, and we don’t have any other instruction.”
― David Brower

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to refuse to define our individuality by our presumed ability to do whatever we want.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

“What obligation is more binding than to protect the cherished, to defend whoever or whatever cannot defend itself, and to nurture in turn that which has given nourishment? I’m reminded of words written by John Seed, an Australian environmentalist. When he began considering these questions, he believed, “I am protecting the rain forest.” But as his thought evolved, he realized, “I am part of the rain forest protecting myself.”
― Richard Nelson, The Island Within

“I am no ecological Pollyana. I have borne, and will continue to bear, feelings of wholehearted melancholy over the ecological state of the earth. How could I not? How could anyone not? But I am unwilling to become a hand-wringing nihilist, as some environmental 'realists' seem to believe is the more mature posture. Instead, I choose to dwell, as Emily Dickinson famously suggested, in possibility, where we cannot predict what will happen but we make space for it, whatever it is, and realize that our participation has value. This is grown-up optimism, where our bondedness with the rest of creation, a sense of profound interaction, and a belief in our shared ingenuity give meaning to our lives and actions on behalf of the more-than-human world.”
― Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

“Of all the special things we choose to do for our planet, let one of them to be of service to animals”
― Paul Oxton

“If we don't have a place for nature in our heart, how can we expect nature to have a place for us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“Organic agriculture = Seed Sovereignty + Biological Integrity + Food Security

Whereas,

Food biotechnology = Food security (at the cost of seed sovereignty and biological integrity)

The choice is on us!”
― Royal Raj S

“Joyfully we undertake our daily work.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“There is nothing wrong in development, it is wrong when development happens at the cost of environment and at the cost of culture and humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“Never apologize for being over sensitive and emotional when defending the welfare of wildlife, let this be a sign that you have a big heart and aren't afraid to show your true feelings. These emotions give you the strength to fight for what is right and to be the voice of those who cannot be heard.”
― Paul Oxton

“Reusing and repurposing is one of the most effective ways to contribute to environmental sustainability.”
― Mohith Agadi

“Organic agriculture equals to seed sovereignty plus biological integrity plus food security.

(Organic agriculture = Seed Sovereignty + Biological Integrity + Food Security)

Whereas, 

Food biotechnology equals only to food security at the cost of seed sovereignty and biological integrity.

(Food biotechnology = Food security)

The choice is on us!”
― Royal Raj S

“Though why is it, she wonders casually as she stacks the boxes in her van, that we expect our children to be the ones to halt deforestation and species extinction and to rescue our planet tomorrow, when we are the ones overseeing its destruction today. There’s a Chinese proverb Willow has always loved: The best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. And the second-best time is always now. And the same goes for saving the ecosystem.”
― Michael Christie, Greenwood

“Where there is a will, there is a way, and there are also trees!”
― Mohith Agadi

“If you are what you eat, you're part plastic - because every animal on earth is eating it.”
― Mark Leiren-Young, Sharks Forever: The Mystery and History of the Planet’s Perfect Predator

“People are significant resource of the world that deserve to live in a safe and healthy environment. Thereby corporates need to maneuver conservative and strategic sustainable development principles to meet the demands of business in the present without compromising the needs of future civilization.”
― Henrietta Newton Martin - Legal Counsel & Author

“Being underwater reminds me of the beauty in life’s simplicity. The sea pulses with life. It exudes it, breathes it; a constant reminder that everything is liquid”
― Haven by Timi Waters

“Being underwater reminds me of the beauty in life’s simplicity. The sea pulses with life. It exudes it, breathes it; a constant reminder that everything is liquid.”
― Haven, Timi Waters

“We haven't yet learnt to take care of Earth, yet we are now headed for Mars as colonizer. With the money it'll take to get to Mars, we can literally end world hunger.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because we don’t really have anything the land wants, we honor it for what it gives us...When you take more than the land can provide, it stops giving. It can’t give. That’s what’s happened here. That’s what happens with humans.”
― David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds

“If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the greatest miracle on earth, just as it has done for more than 450 million years”
― William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

“When all trees are gone, the world will be a jungle -- for trees are not the jungle but our faithful refuge from it”
― Agona Apell

“When you live from the land, which ultimately all of us do, soil is everything. Forgetting this is at our peril.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction

“The world became smaller, yet louder.”
― Silas House, Lark Ascending