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Quotes About Environment

You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.
~ Seth
If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?
~ Richard Louv
All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.
~ Wallace Stevens
Man lives in the house of nature. If he destroys the house, he shall be destroyed as well!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Insect life was so loud that when you parked the car and got out it sounded as if you had suddenly tuned into a radio frequency from another planet.
~ David Samuels
The more we nurture the planet, the better and more natural a life we'll have.
~ Chris d'Lacey, Icefire
I like my home and I like the nature.
~ Billy Corgan
You need to eat what's local. So that's what I'm trying to do - just be as close to nature as possible.
~ Valentina Zelyaeva
The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.
~ Helen Keller
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
~ Vikram Seth
Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare
~ Tony Juniper
Nature does not forgive.
~ Hermann E. Ott
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
~ Jack Nicklaus
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.
~ James Hansen
It's man's impact on our world that appeals to me more than just nature running wild.
~ Tim Gunn
I'm very much an animal and nature person.
~ Jean Houston
One can never study nature too much and too hard
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Being out in nature inspires me as a writer.
~ Jason Mraz
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
~ James A. Michener
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm.
~ Sylvia Earle
Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development
~ Wangari Maathai