Conservation Quotes
See Thomas Paine for a contemporary similar view and Auguste Comte for an earlier statement of the consequences of the contrary.
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. He was speaking to an audience which was very concerned about the survival of fish stocks in the Midwestern rivers and lakes and others who fished for a living or sport. Limiting fishing rights hurt the latter group and not doing so further diminished the fish stocks which were already in peril from over fishing and other factors. Bush wanted to say that there were opportunities for humans to fish and the fish stocks to thrive if there could be compromises. But the phrase that came from his mouth missed the mark and produced another gaff in his collection.
This very famous quotation says that the total amount of energy in a system always remains the same. It may, change from one form to another like heat to light, but it is always there in one form or another.
The major reason for not yet harvesting waste is the labor, caital, and energy costs of recycling relative to the value of the resource is too high. Technology improvements and greater shortages continuously change the equation in favor of harvesting more and more resources.
He never actually set foot in Maryland but governed through deputies.
Many people when they first read this quote assume that it came from some counter-culture radical. It did, but he was a President of the United States.
There were some people and corporations that wanted to open up the Grand Canyon for mining.
This is one of the early environmental statements.
This proverb has been claimed by Nigerian tribes, but documentation does not male that clear.
