Quotes on Energy Conservation

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

'Conservation' (the conservation law) means this ... that there is a number, which you can calculate, at one moment-and as nature undergoes its multitude of changes, this number doesn't change. That is, if you calculate again, this quantity, it'll be the same as it was before. An example is the conservation of energy: there's a quantity that you can calculate according to a certain rule, and it comes out the same answer after, no matter what happens, happens.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.