Natural Resources Conservation Quotes

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

There is a growing recognition of the importance of really bringing pollution under control.

Our planet is blessed with vast natural treasures. If we use them wisely, beginning with the elimination of militarism and war, every human being will be able to live a healthy, prosperous existence.

The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die... It seems an easy choice - sacrifice the tree for a human life - until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated.

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!

We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the present, the future will have received full justice from us. A good future is implicit in the soils, forests, grasslands, marshes, deserts, mountains, rivers, lakes, and oceans that we have now, and in the good things of human culture that we have now; the only valid "futurology" available to us is to take care of those things. We have no need to contrive and dabble at "the future of the human race"; we have the same pressing need that we have always had - to love, care for, and teach our children.

I look at what we have - our traditional natural resource base - as helping move us to that cleaner, more diverse energy supply.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Further devastation of the air, land and sea is obviously a very real possibility, unless the attitudes of politicians and all who irresponsibly exploit our natural resources change significantly in the very near future and all collaborate and sacrifice for the good of the planet.

Environmentally friendly business practices have long been mainstream, particularly when they create a brand advantage, as with organic foods.

I think, in Denmark, we are quite good when it comes to the environment.

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial.

For me, it always comes back to the land, respecting the land, the wildlife, the plants, the rivers, mountains, and deserts, the absolute essential bedrock of our lives. This is the source of where my power lies, the source of where all our power lies.

We have to find alternative ways of producing our raw materials without asking nature to do it for us.