Environment Quotes And Sayings

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“We will look upon the Earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.”
– Mary Daly

“The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.”
– Mayra Mannes

“There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.”
– Mother Theresa

“Take nothing but pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.”
– Motto of the Baltimore Grotto

“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”
– Native American Proverb

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

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops under the rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs.”
– Norman Maclean

“A river is more than an amenity…. It is a treasure. It offers a necessity of life that must be rationed among those who have power over it.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

“When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50. When a man throws a billboard across a view, he is richly rewarded.”
– Pat Brown

“The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.”
– Paul A. Samuelson

“In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.”
– Paul Brooks

“Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!”
– Paul MacCready, Jr.

“The mother of the year should be a sterilized woman with two adopted children.”
– Paul R. Ehrlich

“So bleak is the picture… that the bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.”
– Philip Shabecoff

“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?”
– Pierre Troubetzkoy

“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.”
– Pliny the Elder

“It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life.”
– Rachel Carson

“Sustainability is about ecology, economy and equity.”
– Ralph Bicknese

“The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.”
– Ralph Nader

“When a man says to me, ‘I have the intensest love of nature,’ at once I know that he has none.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the waters, the plants, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments, is the rich and royal man.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.”
– Rene Dubos

“Civilization… wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.”
– Richard Bach

“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.”
– Richard P. Feynman

“In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment.”
– Richard Wilkinson

“There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.”
– Robert Lynd

“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.”
– Robert Orben

“I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?”
– Robert Redford

“I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water…has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.”
– Roderick Haig-Brown

“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.”
– Ross Perot

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