Quotes About Environment

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.

Reversing deforestation is complicated; planting a tree is simple.

I think the kind of landscape that you grew up in, it lives with you. I don't think it's true of people who've grown up in cities so much; you may love a building, but I don't think that you can love it in the way that you love a tree or a river or the colour of the earth; it's a different kind of love.

What is basically just an IQ score has roots in education, socioeconomic status, genetics, and environmental factors. Looking at any one of these roots doesn't give you a full picture of the tree, but it does tell you that a tree is there.

I live in a tree called Luna. I am trying to save her life. Believe me, this is not what I intended to do with my own.

As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

Two boxes of Step Forward Paper saves one tree - that's a real stat.

That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame.

Everybody should plant a tree on any happy occasion or birthday and celebrate.

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

Every day, I get e-mails from kids who want a tree - a world away from the adult world.

To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.

Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.

For a tree, to endure four months of daylight is like you or I going without sleep for four months.

The world breaks a little bit every time we cut down a tree. It's so much easier to cut one down than to grow one. And so it's worth interrogating every time we do it.

Even if each individual plants and protects a single tree, it will save the world and benefit several generations to come.

I hope to get the general public listening, the ones curious to see the woman who sat in the tree for two years.

I'm not sure I like the idea of polar bears under a palm tree.

The ocean is loud: Ship propellers, sonar, oil and gas drilling and other industrial work make sounds, even if, like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, no one can hear it.

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.

There are thousands of ways to take action. For example, plant trees, pick up litter, join an organisation or movement that makes a difference and especially try to influence adults and put pressure on people in power.