Natural Resources Management Quotes

In our traditional culture, people have a very different view towards nature than in Western culture. We consider humans as part of nature. But in the West, they talk about protecting nature. That's a joke because nature doesn't care; it's humans who need to protect themselves.

After the Green Revolution, I came up with the concept of the Evergreen Revolution. In this we will see increase in farm productivity but without ecological harm.

I'm attracted to people who work their little plot of land and cultivate it and cultivate it.

Every day, I get up, and I fill the bird feeders and put out fruit and other food for both the birds and any passing mammals. Is that pointless long-term? I have no idea. All I know is that on this day, in this moment, it makes a difference.

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

If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

Usually, environmental programs are not designed for a mainstream audience.

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.

I believe in carbon offset initiatives, in eco-villages, in the sustainable regeneration of the tropical rainforest.

No one will be allowed to misuse our soil.

What is true environmentalism? I think it's environmental stewardship - not prohibition.

We need a philosophy for humans and nature to live together.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Our planet's greener future depends on nurturing our natural and abundant renewable resources.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The purpose of the environmental movement is to establish control over the people.

Nigeria is a West African nation of over 100 million energetic people. It is endowed with lots of natural resources but lacks human resources.

In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.

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.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

I have returned to the Amazon to thank the people that were involved in my rescue and upon meeting them I realised that their life is in danger. They have asked for my help on a community-based initiation of a tourism project.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources.