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Quotes About Environment

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.
~ Oscar Wilde
He that plants trees loves others besides himself.
~ Unknown
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
~ Baba Dioum
It is important to note that in leadership - its not always simply about control or power, but responsibility. Both spouses have the responsibility to own the relationship and the environment they create for themselves and their family.
~ Unknown
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
~ Unknown
Don't sell your land, don't sell Grandmother Earth to the strip-mining outfits and the uranium companies. Don't sell your water." That kind of advice is a threat to the system and gets you into the penitentiary.
~ Unknown
Our language comes from the water, the flowers, the wild creatures, the
~ Unknown
What men do to trees mirrors what they do to women.
~ Mary Daly
I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.
~ Mary Douglas
Dirt is matter out of place
~ Mary Douglas
We are the first family, and every bird that flies overhead, every breath that is taken, every drop of water that falls, it all belongs to us. We make the laws here. We own whatever you can see. Never let one handful of soil slip through your fingers, or you will lose it all.
~ Mary E. Pearson
We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage cannot be measured on a scale...
~ Unknown
Bloom Where You're Planted
~ Mary Engelbreit
Bloom where you are planted
~ Mary Engelbreit
The greatest polution problem we face today is negativity.
~ Mary Kay Ash
When team members personally create an environment in which they can be proud of their work and work processes, you have made a good start.
~ Unknown
The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn't love it but because it is not afraid of it.
~ Mary Ruefle
how sex roles are determined by the forces around us rather than our genes.
~ Unknown
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
~ Marya Mannes
The earth we abuse and the living things we kill, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.
~ Marya Mannes
The nation's forests were being cut faster than they could grow back. In the 1890s, while Aldo was growing up, the United States had begun to set aside forest reserves to protect the trees. Then, while Aldo was in high school, one of the country's first forestry schools opened at Yale University. Aldo knew immediately what he wanted to do. If he could become a forester, he could get paid to work in the woods all day. How could a job get any better?
~ Unknown
Food is life, and life must not step away from nature.
~ Masanobu Fukuoka