Environment Quotes And Sayings

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“The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality…. Whole forests are being ground into pulp daily to minister to our triviality.”
– Irving Babbitt

“If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down.”
– Jack Handey

“If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.”
– Jacques Barzun

“We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one.”
– Jacques Cousteau

“They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.”
– James G. Watt

“It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.”
– Jane Goodall

“You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.”
– John Clapham

“When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird’s abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God‘s face.”
– John Drinkwater

“The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.”
– John F. Kennedy

“Rivers have what man most respects and longs for in his own life and thoughta capacity for renewal and replenishment, continual energy, creativity, cleansing.”
– John M. Kauffmann

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

“The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.”
– John Muir

“We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

“The environment is where we all meet, where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.”
– Lady Bird Johnson

“Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust?”
– Lane Olinghouse

“A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself.”
– Laura Gilpin

“When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“It’s not just global warming, it’s not just a loss of biodiversity, it’s not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.”
– Leonardo di Caprio

“We owe our lives to the sun… How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?”
– Lewis Thomas

“Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine”
– Lillian Russell

“If there is magic on the planet, it is contained in water.”
– Loren Eiseley

“The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature – nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man’s passing.”
– Loudon Wainwright

“Water is the most critical resource issue of our lifetime and our children‘s lifetime. The health of our waters is the principal measure of how we live on the land.”
– Luna Leopold

“Nature’s laws affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.”
– Luther Burbank

“If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them something more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson

“There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west… keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead

“There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.”
– Marshall McLuhan

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