Quotes About Environment

When we look at teaching in terms of hospitality, we can say that the teacher is called upon to create for his students a free and fearless space where mental and emotional development can take place.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors

Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.

the mission of men there seems to be,like so many busy demons,to drive the forest out of the country.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in the Wildness is the preservation of the World.

My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth. How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

What sort of cultivation, or civilization and improvement, is ours to boast of, if it turns out that, as in this instance, unhandselled nature is worth more even by our modes of valuation than our improvements are,—if we leave the land poorer than we found it?

There is a low mist in the woods— It is a good day to study lichens.

Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.

We are more of the earth, Farther from heaven these days.

To make a railroad round the world available to all mankind is equivalent to grading the whole surface of the planet.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

Es un disparate intentar educar a los hijos dentro de una ciudad. El primer paso ha de ser sacarlos de ella.

If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!

No encontraréis salud en la sociedad, sino en la naturaleza