Quotes About Environment

There's another disadvantage to the use of the flashlight: like many other mechanical gadgets it tends to separate a man from the world around him. If I switch it on my eyes adapt to it and I can see only the small pool of light which it makes in front of me; I am isolated. Leaving the flashlight in my pocket where it belongs, I remain a part of the environment I walk through and my vision though limited has no sharp or definite boundary.

A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

Keep America Beautiful.

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

Please don't throw your cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.

When the earth floods from global warming, the swimmers will rule the world.

Discover wildlife: be a teacher!

Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees.

Save a tree. Eat a beaver.

It's not that easy bein' green.

No scrap of paper bigger than my smallest punch shall be thrown away.

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man.

Seventy-five percent of our planet is water - can you swim?

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.

Every day is Earth Day.

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming inMeltdown expected, the wheat is growing thinEngines stop running, but I have no fear'Cause London is drowning and I live by the river

Nature never goes out of style.

Earth is 98 percent full. Please delete anyone you can.

The difference between a mountain goat and a swan is that swan mucks around the fountains.

How can the spirit of the earth like the white man?... Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.