Environment Quotes
116 Environment Quotes
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We live in … a tight ecological system….If Homo sapiens insists on constant growth, within this system’s inelastic walls, something has to pop, or smother.
John Fischer
A human [is] not a fallen god, but a promoted reptile.
J Howard Moore
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel.
Ivan Turgenev
Nature is the nature of all things that are; things that are have a union with all things from the beginning.
Marcus Aurelius
I do not like noise unless I make it myself.
French proverb
Pollution doesn’t carry a passport.
Thomas McMillan
The poor shall inherit the earth…and all the toxic waste thereof.
Greenpeace
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
Land is immortal, for it harbours the mysteries of creation.
Anwar el-Sadat
Filthy environments may make us mentally ill before they make us physically sick.
Athelstan Spilhaus
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[A car is] a rampacious grizzly bear on the average highway, snorting and stinking.
J Horace McFarland
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold
Spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
Rachel Carson
There is no better way of loving nature than through art.
Oscar Wilde
I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes.
Richard Steele
Man pairs and breeds at all seasons.
Aristotle
Conservation is the religion of the future.
Jane Fonda
This [mining] pit … seemed … to have the evil air of a gluttonous beast crouching there to devour the earth.
Emile Zola
Let the clean wind blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.
Lillian Russell
The difference between Indians and Europeans was not that one had property and the other had none; rather, it was that they loved property differently.
William Cronon
What else is nature but God?
Seneca
Acid Rain Is a Bad Trip
Bumper sticker
Noise: A stench in the ear.
Ambrose Bierce
Work weeds the garden and cultivates the mind.
Paul J Meyer
To those who already love nature, I need only to say, pursue its truths with a new zest, and give to the world the value of the answers to the many questions you have asked the greatest of all teachers – Mother Nature.
George Washington Carver
My work is that of conservation.
George Washington Carver
Conservation is one of our big problems... You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.
George Washington Carver
Nature’s intelligence functions with effortless ease … with carefreeness, harmony and love. When we harness the forces of harmony, joy and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.
Deepak Chopra
This we know: The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.
Chief Seattle
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Chief Seattle
What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit.
Chief Seattle
The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers.
Chief Seattle
This earth is precious to him, and to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its Creator.
Chief Seattle
Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. The end of living and the beginning of survival.
Chief Seattle
Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
Chief Seattle
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