Keng Yaik Lim Quotes

We thought it was a very good idea in this day and age of threat to biodiversity….we believe the scope for ecotourism is great.

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

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.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

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

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.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

To protect the natural environment is to protect the possibilities for youth.

Everyone realizes that we have to clean up the environment, but no one likes the cost.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

Conserving habitats is a wellspring for the next industrial revolution.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

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

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise.

There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that such attention to proper environmental concerns would make the public feel much better about it.

I'm also working closely with a group called the Amazon Conservation Team, helping with the rainforest in South America.

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

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

China has led the world in new tree planting. Over the last several years China has planted 40 percent as many trees as the rest of the world put together. Since 198, all citizens of China over age 11 (and younger than 60) have been formally required at least three trees per year.

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.

Conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand

The forests shall not be burned needlessly.

If you develop in the old fashioned way there are enormous costs (to the environment)….but we have to demonstrate it, not just tell people.