Conservation

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. – American Indian Proverb

Its a morbid observation, but if every one on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem. – Jerry Adler

Ecology is rather like sex — every new generation likes to think they were the first to discover it. – Michael Allaby

The current collapse of industrial society may well be the planets way of avoiding a larger death. – Morris Bergman

As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them. – Louis Bromfield

The question of whether its Gods green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is reminded with some regularity that He may be dying. – Edward Hoagland

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we dont do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. – Petra Kelly

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

When God created the first human beings, God led them around the garden of Eden and said: Look at my works! See how beautiful they are — how excellent! For your sake I created them all. See to it you do not spoil and destroy My world; for if you do, there will be no one else to repair it. – R. Kohelet

The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land. – Aldo Leopold

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison. – Karl Marx

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers. – Ralph Nader