Conservation Quotes

If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish.

~ John Muir

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character; and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thoughts and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without. Nor is there much satisfaction in contemplating the world with nothing left to the spontaneous activity of nature...scarcely a place left where a wild shrub or flower could grow without being eradicated as a weed in the same of improved agriculture. If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere support of a larger, but not a better or happier population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary...

~ John Stuart Mills

I am convinced that most Americans of the new generation have no idea what a decent forest looks like. The only way to tell them is to show them.

~ Aldo Leopold

We must stop seeing the natural world as a commodity and start seeing it as we would see a family member, something to love, protect, care for, and cherish.

~ Barry Babcock

On a winter’s day when a person’s spirits may be low and to behold thirty to one-hundred Evening Grosbeaks busily gorging themselves on bird seed and perched in a stand of pines with all of them creating a cacophony of sparrow like chirps, this is real therapy for me. It is an act of contagious optimism. It is at such times I realize that a bird can do more for me than a shrink.

~ Barry Babcock

Speechless is not even a good enough word to describe what I feel when I see the pictures of how we have transformed the world from the good to bad, from natural to artificial, physical appearance to daily makeup. I think I want to go with the word ENRAGED, DISGUSTED, or better yet INSULTED .

~ Auliq Ice

Nature responds to your respect and gratitude by creating a magical energy of blessings in return.

~ Eileen Anglin

The love for God is the love to protect the environment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do you think people have evolved too far, because I do; oh their ability to heal is indeed a wonder and I do praise them for that, but in many other things I think evolution has been a bit rushed, like getting to the bus stop before the wheel was invented.

~ Conversations With A Pigeon

Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which body, mind, and nature are the same. This retreat from wonder, the backing away like lobsters into safe crannies, the desperate instinct that our life passes unlived, is reflected in proliferation without joy, corrosive money rot, the gross befouling of the earth and air and water from which we came.

~ Peter Matthiessen

Man was the last of Creation but was given the duty to care for the Earth and all other created living creatures.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how.

~ Aldo Leopold

He tossed her over his shoulder and stalked back to the bedroom. What do you think you're doing? I've had enough babysitting duty. It's time for some grownup action.

~ Terry Spear

To those who serve to protect the exotic animals in the rainforest. Thanks for making it possible for so many of them to remain in their natural habitat and for stopping those who are destroying the animals or transporting them from their homes in the wild.

~ Terry Spear

But if you wake up and are feeling....needy...

~ Terry Spear

He chuckled. Come here. She hesitated. We don't have to do anything. Just ... sleep. She let out her breath on a heavy sign. You don't want to just sleep. Then she moved in next to him, and he wrapped his arms around her. Do you? Hell no. He leaned down for a kiss.

~ Terry Spear

At dusk in the Corcovado National Park in Costa Rica, Melissa Overton barely heard the constant sound of crickets chirping all around them. Prowling through the dense, tropical rainforest as a jaguar, she listened for the human voices that would clue her in that her prey was nearby. Waves crashed onto the sandy beaches in the distance as she made her way quietly, like a phantom predator, through the tangle of vines and broad, leafy foliage, searching for any sign of the poachers. Humans wouldn't have a clue as to what she and her kind were when they saw her - apparently nothing other than an ordinary jaguar. And she and her fellow jaguar shifters planned to keep it that way. Her partner on this mission, JAG agent Huntley Anderson, was nearby, just as wary and observant. The JAG Special Forces Branch, also known as the Golden Claws, was only open to jaguar shifters and served to protect both their shifter kind and their jaguar cousins....

~ Terry Spear

Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.

~ Patsie Smith

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

~ Peter Golkin

The love for God is the love for nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every man ought to plant a tree.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

~ Mike Bond

I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.

~ C.j. English

I come to oil country with a book about radicals who wish for the end of pipelines. But that's not what it's about. It's the friction point of prosperity and concern, ability and disability, the loss of bodily presence and the gain of ghost messages. It's misplaced outrage and well-placed courage. It's banjo song and smoke in your eye. Stories hinge there, swinging this way and that.

~ Kate Inglis

If I stay, it’s going to be in your bed.” Her pounding heart relaxed, the fear that he’d reject her floating away like tiny grains of sand in the wind. “I know.” “And we’re not going to sleep.” “I’m good with that, too.

~ Robin Bielman

When I'm inside you, buried so deep I'm the only thing that exists in your world, that's when I'm not going to go slow. It's going to be fast and hard because I'm going to lose my mind.

~ Robin Bielman

I want to be in the water with you again, nani girl. Her knees went weak and trembles raced down her spine. Beautiful girl had been a special nickname only he used.

~ Robin Bielman

Still following the rules, huh? He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on.Still breaking them? she fired back.

~ Robin Bielman

His dimples should come with an advisory label: Will cause hearts to flutter and panties to spontaneously combust.

~ Robin Bielman

She put her hands on her hips. You're not human. Neither are you. I beg your pardon? Ethereal comes to mind.

~ Robin Bielman

Charlie brought her dandelion to her mouth. I've heard that, too. But this happens to be something I've done a lot and it's easy. Just take a deep breath, put your lips together, and blow. She closed her eyes and blew. When she lifted her lids, she found him watching her.Or rather, watching her mouth. She let go of the flower stem and swallowed. I'm thinking those lips of yours could make any man's wish come true.

~ Robin Bielman

Oh, crap.The last person she wanted to run into this morning when she had to be super-professional was Hot Pool Guy. Before she had a chance to hide behind a plant or something, his gaze connected with hers and held her hostage.He flashed a smile and headed her way. Shit. She got to her feet thinking she'd say a quick hello before telling him she was meeting someone and excuse herself. Look away from those amazing dark eyes before you get yourself in trouble. She forced her attention down.And found a logo on the breast pocket of his white polo shirt.Word.Heritage.Fund.Kill her now.

~ Robin Bielman

Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor's kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever.

~ Robin Bielman

He parked the car, pressed the button for the roof to fold back, and undid his seat belt. It's an emergency.Goldilocks giggled. She unfastened her belt and hopped onto her knees. Yes, I can see - she glanced down at his crotch - That we're in danger of a detonation. What's the protocol in a situation like this, Mr. Environmentalist?I'm afraid I have no choice but to advocate for release.

~ Robin Bielman

With a gentle touch, she brushed the hair off his forehead. I was sort of hoping you'd be a little more relaxed today.He took her hand and kissed it.I'm very relaxed.Finally? She raised her eyebrows and snuggled closer.You feel a little stiff.And getting stiffer by the second. He had zero control around this woman. We should probably do something about that.

~ Robin Bielman

Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.

~ Robin Bielman

The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.

~ Shannon L. Alder

we have forgotten how to press our fingers to the tilting planet's jugular and measure her pulse. we have forgotten symbiosis, that she is our mother.we have forgotten that when we rape our world we rape ourselves.

~ Beth Morey

As it is there isn't a single thing isn't an opportunity for some 'alert' person, including practically everybody by the 'greed', that, they are 'alive', therefore. Etc. That, in fact, there are 'conditions'. Gravelly Hill or any sort of situation for improvement, when the Earth was properly regarded as a 'garden tenement messuage orchard and if this is nostalgia let you take a breath of April showers let's us reason how is the dampness in your nasal passage -- but I have had lunch in this 'pasture' (B. Ellery to George Girdler Smith 'gentleman' 1799, for £150)overlooking 'the town' sitting there like the Memphite lord of all Creationwith my back -- with Dogtownover the Crown of gravelly hillIt is not bad to be pissed off

~ Charles Olson

Another big group of dolphins had just surfaced alongside our moving vessel—leaping and splashing and calling mysteriously back and forth in their squeally, whistly way, with many babies swift alongside their mothers. And this time, confined to just the surface of such deep and lovely lives, I was becoming unsatisfied. I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they feel so compelling, and so—close. This time I allowed myself to ask them the question that was forbidden fruit: Who are you? Science usually steers firmly from questions about the inner lives of animals. Surely they have inner lives of some sort. But like a child who is admonished that what they really want to ask is impolite, a young scientist is taught that the animal mind—if there is such—is unknowable. Permissible questions are “it” questions: where it lives; what it eats; what it does when danger threatens; how it breeds. But always forbidden—always forbidden—is the one question that might open the door: “Who?” — Carl Safina

~ Carl Safina