Environment Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.”
– Sandra Postel

“If we go on using the Earth uncaringly and without replenishing it, then we are just greedy consumers.”
– Satish Kumar

“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.”
– Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac

“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun’s energy…. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.”
– Sir George Porter

“Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”
– Stephanie Mills

“The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”
– Stephanie Mills

“Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.”
– Stephen Jay Gould

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.”
– Stewart Udall

“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 squirrel.’”
– The Washington Post

“We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh

“We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.”
– Thomas Fuller

“Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find.”
– Time Magazine

“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”
– Tom McMillan

“For 200 years we’ve been conquering Nature. Now we’re beating it to death.”
– Tom McMillan

“A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.”
– Unknown

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

“All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.”
– Unknown

“Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Unknown

“Every day is Earth Day.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Unknown

“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.”
– Wallace Stegner

“Dig a trench through a landfill and you will see layers of phone books like geographical strata or layers of cake…. During a recent landfill dig in Phoenix, I found newspapers dating from 1952 that looked so fresh you might read one over breakfast.”
– William Rathje

“Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.”
– William Ruckelshaus

“When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.”
– Ymber Delecto

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