Russell Kirk Quotes

Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival.

There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.

Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

India's elite wants not just cosmetic environmentalism, but a consumer-environmentalism. It wants to have good areas to go for tourism to. So it's happy to have national parks, because people can go for wildlife tourism. Or good beaches. But they don't want, and don't care about, a livelihood environmentalism.

Conservation must become before recreation.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

Plant more flowers than you pick

When I speak of knowledge of nature, I do not mean industrial science, which argues that nature is inert and can be understood only to enable humans to manipulate it. I mean that sense of nature that Aldo Leopold had in mind when he said, "A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community, wrong when it tends otherwise.

My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.

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

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

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

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Save the trees of Ireland for the future men of Ireland on the fair hills of Eire, O.

I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

My main issue is sustainability of the Earth, and protection of those animals and people who dwell here.

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.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

Like the other great revolutions, an environmental revolution will require sacrifices and lead to enormous gains. It, too, will change the face of the land and human institutions, hierarchies, self-definitions, cultures. It will take centuries. If it happens. There is no guarantee, of course.