Environment Quotes and Sayings

We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it.

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

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

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

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.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

Humans merely share the Earth. We can only protect the land, not own it.

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

The environment, after all, is where we all meet, where we all where we all have a mutual interest. It is one thing that all of us share. It is not only a mirror of ourselves, but a focusing lens on what we can become.

The most political act we do on a daily basis is to eat, as our actions affect farms, landscapes, and food businesses.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

The U.S. goverment was the first to start an automobile junkyard on the Moon.

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

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

Modern technology…..Owes ecology….An apology.

Any fool can destroy trees.

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

Man should be master of his environment, not its slave. That is what freedom means.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.

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 ?

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.

All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

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.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals

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.