Rick Danko Quotes

No-one wants polluted air, water or land, denuded forests or extinct animal species. But the error most people make is to trust the legislature to prevent these tragedies. What they don’t realize is how big a role the legislature has played historically in causing environmental destruction.

True conservation means protecting the entire habitat.

It is imperative for us to protect the flora and fauna around us.

In the 19th century, we devoted our best minds to exploring nature. In the 20th century, we devoted ourselves to controlling and harnessing it. In the 21st century, we must devote ourselves to restoring it.

I could have bought a pristine part of Tanzania. But I saw a beautiful mountain, game that could come back, and country that could be rich again.

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

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.

That area environmentally is a waste. You can't do anything. I don't care if the Sierra Club goes out there. It is fully polluted! You're not only going to work to clean up the environment, but also you will put people to work.

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

Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment.

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

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.

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 did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.

I wouldn't want anyone to destroy the earth.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

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'd like more of the world go back to being wild.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

Now, more than ever, we need nature as a balancing agent.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

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.