Campbell Newman Quotes

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

Protecting vital sources of renewal - unscathed marshes, healthy reefs, and deep-sea gardens - will provide hope for the future of the Gulf, and for all of us.

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

The very survival of the human species depends upon the maintenance of an ocean clean and alive.... The ocean is our planet's life belt.

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.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There's still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.

I reflect back 35 years ago, and look how far we have come in America with our environmental policy to improve the conditions of our air and water, and we have had some real successes.

In Congress, I am focused on the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and sea-level rise - both of which are threats to healthy oceans that sustain life on- and off-shore.

So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way it is, so we can live here. So that is can sustain us.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

Sooner or later we've got to tie the saving of the natural world to our own public welfare.

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.

I don't need a strong EPA. I don't need to fund a lot of money there.

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

We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.

Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

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

Natural resources are so vast that no single individual or business is going to protect them; they don't have an incentive to.

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