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Quotes About Environment

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.
~ Yayoi Kusama
Pure air, good water, sunshine, the beautiful surroundings of nature...these are God's means for restoring the sick to health.
~ Ellen G. White
We borrow from nature the space upon which we build.
~ Tadao Ando
In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
~ Vandana Shiva
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
~ E. O. Wilson
Teaching children about the natural world should be seen as one of the most important events in their lives.
~ Thomas Berry
Take nothing but memories, leave nothing but footprints!
~ Chief Seattle
Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it.
~ David Suzuki
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.
~ Aldo Leopold
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
The environment is where we all meet; where all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share.
~ Lady Bird Johnson
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
~ Albert Einstein
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
~ Edward Abbey
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~ E. O. Wilson
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.
~ Jack Herer
The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
~ Gaylord Nelson
When we destroy something crated by man we call it vandalism but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress.
~ Ed Begley, Jr.
In nature nothing exists alone.
~ Rachel Carson
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
~ William Ruckelshaus
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
When we return wild animals to nature, we merely return them to what is already theirs. For man cannot give wild animals freedom, they can only take it away.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.
~ Lynn Townsend White, Jr.