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"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."

"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."

"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger."

"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."

"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."

"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."

"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."

"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."

"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
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"I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving."

"Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock."

"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."

"The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected."

"I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control."

"We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy."
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