Environment Quotes And Sayings

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“Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.”
– Dennis Gabor

“It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times…. What the Dickens is going on here?”
– Denton Morrison

“The weight of our civilization has become so great, it now ranks as a global force and a significant wild card in the human future along with the Ice Ages and other vicissitudes of a volatile and changeable planetary system.”
– Dianne Dumanoski

“To halt the decline of an ecosystem, it is necessary to think like an ecosystem.”
– Douglas P. Wheeler

“Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.”
– E. Knight

“One planet, one experiment.”
– Edward O. Wilson

“Man maketh a death which Nature never made.”
– Edward Young

“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.”
– Elwyn Brooks White

“The control man has secured over nature has far outrun his control over himself.”
– Ernest Jones

“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
– Francis Bacon

“Will urban sprawl spread so far that most people lose all touch with nature? Will the day come when the only bird a typical American child ever sees is a canary in a pet shop window? When the only wild animal he knows is a rat – glimpsed on a night drive through some city slum? When the only tree he touches is the cleverly fabricated plastic evergreen that shades his gifts on Christmas morning?”
– Frank N. Ikard

“Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option…they will become a necessity.”
– Fujio Cho

“The ultimate test of man’s conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.”
– Gaylord Nelson

“The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.”
– Gaylord Nelson

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
For strip-mined mountain’s majesty above the asphalt plain.
America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”
– George Carlin

“What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom – and lakes die.”
– Gil Stern

“It wasn’t the Exxon Valdez captain’s driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.”
– Greenpeace

“To trace the history of a river or a raindrop…is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.”
– Gretel Ehrlich

“What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.”
– Hal Boyle

“The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.”
– Havelock Ellis

“Because we don’t think about future generations, they will never forget us.”
– Henrik Tikkanen

“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.”
– Heraclitus of Ephesus

“The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.”
– Hermann Hesse

“We made a sacred covenant to follow the Creator’s life plan at all times, which includes the responsibility of taking care of this land and life for His divine purpose. We have never made treaties with any foreign nation, including the United States, but for many centuries we have honored this Sacred Agreement. Our goals are not to gain political control, monetary wealth nor military power, but rather to pray and to promote the welfare of all living beings and to preserve the world in a natural way.”
– Hopi Elder Banyacya

“Drive Nature forth by force, she’ll turn and rout
The false refinements that would keep her out.”
– Horace

“Newspapers: dead trees with information smeared on them.”
– Horizon

“Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.”
– Ian McHarg

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