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Quotes About Environment

I feel like I'm nothing without wildlife. They are the stars. I feel awkward without them.
~ Bindi Irwin
To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
~ Aldo Leopold
As a living, breathing person, you must love things that derive from nature.
~ Vince Staples
In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.
~ David Suzuki
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
~ Philip Shabecoff
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
~ Joni Mitchell
To be whole and harmonious, man must also know the music of the beaches and the woods. He must find the thing of which he is only an infinitesimal part and nurture it and love it, if he is to live.
~ William O. Douglas
Look at mother nature on the run in the 1970's.
~ Neil Young
My mother named me after a miracle of nature: Waris means desert flower. The desert flower blooms in a barren environment where few living things can survive.
~ Waris Dirie
Water is being depleted many, many times faster than nature can replenish it.
~ Maude Barlow
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
~ Charlie Cook
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?
~ Jane Goodall
Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.
~ John Dewey
Wildlife is something which man cannot construct. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Man can rebuild a pyramid, but he can't rebuild ecology, or a giraffe.
~ Joy Adamson
You can never really go wrong if you take nature as an example
~ Christian Dior
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
~ Wendell Berry
Stadiums are for spectators. We runners have Nature, and that is much better.
~ Juha Vaatainen
I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
~ Anna Bligh
What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool at night?
~ Chief Seattle
Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.
~ Yoko Ono
Let nature be in your yard.
~ Greg Peterson
When you defile the pleasant streams, And the wild bird's abiding place, You massacre a million dreams, And cast your spittle in God's face
~ John Drinkwater
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.
~ David Adjaye
Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price
~ Ansel Adams