Quotes About Environment

Trees are the fairest ornaments of nature.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

I eat everything that nature voluntarily gives: fruits, vegetables, and the products of plants. But I ask you to spare me what animals are forced to surrender: meat, milk, and cheese.

Weeds are nature's graffiti.

Conserve Water, Drink Wine

Man is the most alive of living things. In him the traits which distinguish the animate from the inanimate become most pronounced. This is particularly true of his creativeness, which is essentially life giving. It introduces order into the randomness of nature... and is actuated not only by the present environment but by memories and goals.

Fresh air impoverishes the doctor.

All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot.

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Every day is Earth Day.

Don't blow it — good planets are hard to find.

God bless America. Let's save some of it.

The deer isn't crossing the road. It's crossing the forest.

The Earth just sent us all to our rooms to think about what we've done.

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.

Plants — light and life grown green

A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense.

Discover wildlife: Be a teacher!

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.

I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples… but often, environmentalism is used to blackmail companies.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

There are no idealists in the plant world and no compassion. The rose and the morning glory know no mercy. Bindweed, the morning glory, will quickly choke its competitors to death, and the fencerow rose will just as quietly crowd out any other plant that tried to share its roothold. Idealism and mercy are human terms and human concepts.

Technology has changed the environment of humans and the ecology of Earth. It has