Quotes About Environment

Source Reduction is to garbage what preventive medicine is to health.

We all, parents, educators, community leaders, and every... citizen, need to come together to find new ways to engage children with the natural environment.

It is the abiding concern of thinking people to preserve what keeps men human-to save our contact with nature of which we are a part.

The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It's an emergency.

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we influence nature, we influence ourselves; when we change nature, we change ourselves.

The natural environment is the great outpatient department where we can go for healing

It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

... if we are serious about helping nature, we need to be willing to forego material benefits.

My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

When the hoary old question of nature versus nurture comes around, sides form quickly.

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.