Quotes About Environment

Food is as important as energy, as security, as the environment. Everything is linked together.

All things are bound together, all things connect. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls also the children of the earth.

All things are bound together. All things connect.

I known I'm only a child, yet I know we're all in the this together and should act as one single world towards one single goal

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet.

It's incredible to see labor unions and environmentalists getting together to stop the corporate mentality that destroys both jobs and the environment.

The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.

Together, we can bring our planet's heartbeat back.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

The countryside breeds cruel maidens.

Leechfield Will Grease The Planet!

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.

All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.

All important ideas must include the trees,the mountains, and the rivers.

These days many poets live in cities, or at least in suburbs, and the natural world grows ever more distant from our everyday lives. Most people, in fact, live in cities, and therefore most readers are not necessarily very familiar with the natural world. And yet the natural world has always been the great warehouse of symbolic imagery. Poetry is one of the ancient arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

What does it mean... that the earth is so beautiful? And what shall I do about it?

If you're John Muir you want trees to live among. If you're Emily, a garden will do. Try to find the right place for yourself.

Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit. Stand them in the stream, head them upstream, rejoice as they learn to love this green space they live in, its sticks and leaves and then the silent, beautiful blossoms.

If you can hear the trees in their easy hours of course you can also hear them later, crying out at the sawmill.

Give them the fields and the woods and the possibility of the world salvaged from the lords of profit.

Nature there will always be, but it will not be what we have now, much less the deeper fields and woodlands many of us remember from our childhood. The worlds of van Gogh and Turner and Winslow Homer, and Wordsworth too, and Frost and Jeffers and Whitman, are gone, and will not return. We can come to our senses yet, and rescue the world, but we will never return it to anything like its original form.

I would say that there exist a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family, and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves—we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together. We are each other's destiny.