Quotes About Environment

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Only to the white man was nature a 'wilderness'.

We depend on nature. Now, nature's depending on us.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.

We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done.

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

It is clear to me that unless we connect directly with the earth, we will not have the faintest clue why we should save it.

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

The final principle of natural farming is NO PESTICIDES. Nature is in perfect balance when left alone.

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is the land, the lift of its mountain lines, the reach of its valleys.

Either we reduce the world's population voluntarily or nature will do this for us, but brutally

More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer.

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

The national park is the best idea America ever had.

For the Lakota there was no wilderness. Nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly.

Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

To be modern is to destroy nature.

One thing you cannot control is nature.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

The wild places are where we began. When they end, so do we.