Quotes About Environment

Each generation of humanity takes the earth as trustees... We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

Wind is caused by the trees waving their branches.

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

The nature of the place...whether high or low, moist or dry, whether sloping north or south, or bearing tall trees or low shrubs...generally gives hint as to its inhabitants.

Trees cause pollution.

I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.

Based upon the pictures, I concluded that about 60 percent of all college classes in the United States are held outside, underneath a tree, usually by a gently flowing stream.

Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand years to grow.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!

Let soldiers on manoeuvres plant trees. Give police and criminals a shovel and a thousand seedlings.

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

Many trees planted around a home reduce the need for air conditioning.