What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

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

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

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

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

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.

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 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.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

I started out as a Democrat.

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

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

Conservation means the wise use of the earth and its resources for the lasting good of men.

In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.

The outgrowth of conservation, the inevitable result, is national efficiency.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

I wouldn't miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I'd do it all over again, every single minute.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

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.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

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

Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role on the supply side.

Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

People are not going to care about animal conservation unless they think that animals are worthwhile.

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

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

I'm doing my part, building plants at a record rate, having historic conservation levels. The only people not doing their part is the federal government that is siding with the energy companies against the interests of the people of California.