Dating back to Teddy
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat. Gale Norton
Conservation
I write about how
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only suggestions and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that … Read more
We live in an
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The … Read more
Having lived in the
Having lived in the arid deserts of Southern California since the 1970s, my interest in water conservation is a very personal concern. Water! The source of life! Some people are squandering the world’s most precious resource while others have too little clean water to drink. Eric Burdon
In the name of
In the name of the bee And of the butterfly And of the breeze, amen! Emily Dickinson
If you\\’re a conservation
If you’re a conservation biologist in many fields, you’re seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they’re chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in. Elizabeth Kolbert
The silence of a
The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined. Elizabeth Bowen
…conservation of land and
…conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand. Eleanor Roosevelt
The long fight to
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues–self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be … Read more
Most of what I
Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years. Edward Norton