Quotes About Environment

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

The place to observe nature is where you are.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Conservation is humanity caring for the future.

When nature suffers because it is destroyed by human activities, the notion of beauty is really losing its meaning, because nothing is more aesthetic than the natural beauty.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises.

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

in the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - our houses.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

A grateful environment is a substitute for happiness. It can quicken us from without as a fixed hope and affection, or as the consciousness of a right life, can quicken us from within.

Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.

If you know wilderness in the way that you know love, you would be unwilling to let it go.... This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Mankind can only disappoint mother nature for so long

My inspiration comes from the common man and nature.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

I'm a country girl. I have to be in nature, so my daughter is exposed to it a lot.

Man has slapped nature in the face. If you slap it, it will slap you back.

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

Horses have hoofs to carry them over frost and snow; hair, to protect them from wind and cold. They eat grass and drink water, and fling up their heels.... Such is the real nature of horses.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

Man must conquer nature.