environment quotes by JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU-1486057626

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.



environment quotes by JOHN MUIR-1486056333

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.



environment quotes by RICHARD P. FEYNMAN-1486052607

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.



environment quotes by PIERRE TROUBETZKOY-1486050928

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?



environment quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1486047958

We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.



environment quotes by ANSEL ADAMS-1486027853

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



environment quotes by ROSS PEROT-1486026412

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.



environment quotes by AUNT BEE TAYLOR-1486025051

Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know.



environment quotes by E.KNIGHT-1486023271

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.



environment quotes by WALLACE STEGNER-1486021729

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence, so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automotive waste.



environment quotes by KURT VONNEGUT-1486020288

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.



environment quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1486019018

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.



environment quotes by BERNAND DE VOTO-1486009022

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.



environment quotes by CHARLES A. LINDBERGH-1485969635

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?



environment quotes by FRANCIS BACON-1485968215

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.



environment quotes by DAVID ORR-1485966394

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.



environment quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1485964669

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.



environment quotes by RALPH WALDO EMERSON-1485963378

When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.



environment quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1485958931

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.



environment quotes by THE WASHINGTON POST-1485957128

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? "Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirre



environment quotes by SAVINIEN DE CYRANO DE BERGERAC-1485955336

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.



environment quotes by JOHN DRINKWATER-1485925089

When you defile the pleasant streamsAnd the wild bird's abiding place,You massacre a million dreamsAnd cast your spittle in God's face.



environment quotes by PLINY THE ELDER-1485923609

Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.