“Conservation is the foresighted utilization, preservation and/or renewal of forests, waters, lands and minerals, for the greatest good of the greatest number for the longest time.”
Gifford Pinchot
“I have brought blankets, rations and mineral water for the victims. I and my volunteers are going to camp in Uri.”
Yasin Malik
“We found mineral grains that are considered very high-temperature minerals -- they normally form under extremely high temperature conditions. And yet they were collected in a comet, the Siberia of the solar system.”
Don Brownlee
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
“In a cavern, in a canyon, Excavating for a mine Dwelt a miner, Forty-niner, And his daughter, Clementine”
Percy Montrose
“I am the very model of a modern Major-General; / I've information vegetable, animal and mineral; / I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, / From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical.”
William S. Gilbert