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Quotes About Environment

Girls, do not scrub and cook and scour until you have no time left to plant a tree, or vine or flower.
~ Jane Swisshelm
I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
~ Thomas Jefferson
In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.
~ Remy de Gourmont
The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
~ Pat Paulsen
As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.
~ Jonathan Weiner
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
~ Barbara Walters
Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
~ Felix Dennis
Many trees could be saved if the government stopped printing tax forms.
~ Sam Ewing
Reforesting the earth is possible, given a human touch.
~ Sandra Postel
Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?
~ Deepak Chopra
Verde que te quiero verde. Verde viento. Verde ramas. Green I love you green. Green Wind. Green branches.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
The landscape of my childhood was one of fierce occupation by trees.
~ Janisse Ray
Monotheism begins with a god who hates trees.
~ John Lamb Lash
The simplest carbon dioxide removal approach is to plant a tree.
~ Ken Caldeira
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
~ Julia Hill
The most beautiful thing about a tree is what you do with it after you cut it down.
~ Rush Limbaugh
Don't let anything like trees in the Clearwater National Forest get in the way of providing jobs and fueling the economy, even if that means cutting down every last tree in the state.
~ Helen Chenoweth-Hage
What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.
~ Henry Cuyler Bunner
They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
~ Kim Wilde
We can plant a house, we can build a tree.
~ Kurt Cobain
I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.
~ Liam Gallagher
He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.
~ Janet Morris
I couldn't live where there were no trees--something vital in me would starve.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Even if I were certain that the world would end tomorrow, I would plant a tree this very day
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.