Cool Conservation Quotes, Vol. 3

Conservation finance is the best place where people, land, and money meet. It is populated with individuals who are passionate about land and are contributing special skills and great new ideas to its protection. Most are people of conservation organizations responding with ingenuity to the pressure to stretch limited funds for greater outcomes. However, new diversity is entering the conservation finance scene. Some of these new participants work behind cash registers at local retail enterprises. Others are realtors and developers. Some are commercial and investment bankers who may look a little out of place in their gray suits with Wall Street Journals tucked under their arms.

--- Story Clark, A Field Guide to Conservation Finance (2007)

Clark's next book, New Financial Options for Conserving Land, is scheduled to be published by Island Press in October 2009.