Quotes About Environment

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

Everything we make pollutes. The most responsible thing we can do is to make each product as well as we know how so it lasts as long as possible.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

It is Jazz's very nature to change, to develop & adapt to the circumstances of its environment.

There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

Study nature not books

It is not really necessary to destroy nature in order to gain God's favor or even his undivided attention.

There is no debate in the scientific community...We need [Congress] to change things, not to deny what's happening.

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

Look at Nature. Nature is a book from which we must learn. Each object in it is a page of that book.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.

Government cannot close its eyes to the pollution of waters, to the erosion of soil, to the slashing of forests any more than it can close its eyes to the need for slum clearance and schools.

I like to define biology as the history of the earth and all its life - past, present, and future.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.