Quotes About Environment

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

The environment is in us, not outside of us. The trees are our lungs, the rivers our bloodstream. We are all interconnected, and what you do to the environment ultimately you do to yourself.

A tree is our most intimate contact with nature.

At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

Trees are your best antiques

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

What a friend we have in a tree, the tree is the symbol of hope, self improvement and what people can do for themselves.

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.

They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it's not your fault, but you still don't live in a forest.

I love a tree more than a man.

They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones.

A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral.

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Hard to find anything lovelier than a tree. They grow at right angles to a tangent of the nominal sphere of the Earth.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

Life on earth is inconceivable without trees.

Trees indeed have hearts.

It is said that in some countries trees will grow, but will bear no fruit because there is no winter there.