Carlos Moorhead Quotes

Conservation is not without a cost.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.

This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.

I, Maggie, personally cannot tell you that you're going to save the planet. But what I do know is that we can draw a line to an issue that can conserve what we already have and what's left in a way that we can actually breathe the air, drink the water, actually grow things in soil - that matters in a real, practical way.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

Conservation has been in eclipse in this country ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s day. It had barely gotten off the ground when Uncle Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the House in those days, issued his ultimatum: “Not 1 cent for scenery.” Well, today we are repealing Cannon’s law. We are declaring a new doctrine of conservation.

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!

Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

We can make a concerted effort to stop poisoning the planet: that would be a good way of appeasing the gods.

To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

In the long term the economy and the environment are the same thing. If it is unenvironmental it is uneconomical. That is a rule of nature.

How can you save the rain forests, the planet's wildlife, without funds?

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

There are fewer chemical pollutants in the air. Our drinking water is safer. Our food standards have been raised. We've cleaned up more toxic waste sites in three years than the previous administrations did in twelve. The environment is cleaner, and we have fought off the most vigorous assault on environmental protection since we began to protect the environment in 1970. We are moving in the right direction to the 21st century.

Doing everything the scientists wanted us to do [to protect the environment] would be ruinous.

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

So I'm going to go on and work on preserving the ozone layer, encouraging everyone to recycle.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.