#conservation

They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. ↗

— Willa Cather

#environment #native-american #death

And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess. ↗

— Art Buchwald

#environment #art

...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand... ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#love

If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#nature #nature

We continue to still cut down the tree's of this world, despite having nailed one 2000 years ago. ↗

— Moses Pereira

#nature

Good farmers, who take seriously their duties as stewards of Creation and of their land's inheritors, contribute to the welfare of society in more ways than society usually acknowledges, or even knows. These farmers produce valuable goods, of course; but they also conserve soil, they conserve water, they conserve wildlife, they conserve open space, they conserve scenery. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #food

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence. ↗

— Tom Allen

#energy #energy independence #foundation #independence

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#clean #conservation #country #domestic #encouraging

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#business #conservation #enterprise #exist #fails

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#conservation #doing #finger #get #great