Nature Conservation Quotes

“Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover”
― Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

“Conservation is life..”
― Kedar Dhepe

“When we defend the forests, we guard the lungs of tomorrow; when we preserve the waters, we safeguard the lifeblood of the Earth.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“To harm nature is to harm yourself. To care for it is to care not just for yourself, but for the entire universe.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“To care for nature is to honor the past, safeguard the present, and secure the future.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“Mad are the mortals who poison the river that quenches their thirst and yet hope to live.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“We cannot seem to help ourselves they said. Thus, the hominid spark of intelligence flares, burns everything around it, and fades. Some humans will survive the great conflagration. Thus, begins an endless cycle of destruction spiraling downward until our species is gone. We can hope that before the sun begins to become unstable (it is about half way there now) evolution can produce a new and better intelligence that will have sufficient breadth and depth to understand the ecological consequences of its actions.”
― Garry Rogers

“like a virus, has invaded the human world. nature never himself does not fix it”
― N'wana Mhani

“Il nous faudra répondre à notre véritable vocation, qui n'est pas de produire et de consommer jusqu'à la fin de nos vies, mais d'aimer, d'admirer et de prendre soin de la vie sous toutes ses formes.”
― Pierre Rabhi

“To move conservation forward—to move toward ethics and regeneration and holism—we must first learn to see so that we can learn how to speak so that we can learn how to know better.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers

“Conservation is in a bad way because it has failed to see the whole of communities and the many concentric circles of wholes they contain; it has failed to see that management is a partnership based in community and not a dictatorship based in control; and, if I can go this far, it has failed because it never learned how to stop, to see, and to speak the language of the wind—it has never learned to be wild like flowers.”
― Daniel Firth Griffith, Wild Like Flowers

“The poor Ferns, like the wolves in olden time, have a price set upon their heads, and they in like manner will soon disappear. We must have "Fern Laws", and preserve them like game.”
― Nona Maria S. Bellairs, Hardy Ferns: How I Collected and Cultivated Them

“Trees are Love.”
― Avijeet Das

“The conservation of nature isn't a sprint but a timeless relay; each generation passing the baton of responsibility. It's our turn—let's do it devotedly and diligently.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“When you begin to learn how to not hunt birds, nor trample on plants, then you are ready to save humanity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“The greatest evil the world has ever done is killing nature after consuming from its generous hands.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“Nature is not owned, but entrusted—her silence is not consent.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“From an environmental point of view I have always believed that some of our native hardy breeds of cattle, such as Highlanders and Galloways, could be used in many nature conservation areas to replicate the activities of the ancient ox. This would be especially true if they were bred back to be capable of surviving all year round on natural vegetation, and were not to receive supplementary feeding or medicines.”
― Roy Dennis, Restoring the Wild: Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways