Leo Szilard Quotes

Nothing was made by God for man to spoil or destroy.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

Humans merely share the earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

Conservation must become before recreation.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

If I have any lasting worth, it will be because I have tried to make people remember what the Earth is meant to look like.

I hope people understand there is a world outside our life in this bubble and hope we can appreciate it and preserve it.

Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.

I will work tirelessly to ensure our public lands are managed and preserved in a way that benefits everyone for generations to come.

The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.

How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.

From every conceivable angle-economic social, cultural, public health, national defense-conservation of natural resources is an objective on which all should agree.

May this continent, the last explored by humankind, be the first one to be spared by humankind.

If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources.

Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

Prize the natural spaces and shorelines most of all, because once they're gone, with rare exceptions they're gone forever. In our bones we need the natural curves of hills, the scent of chapparal, the whisper of pines, the possibility of wildness. We require these patches of nature for our mental health and our spiritual resilience.