Quotes About Nature

We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

In general, any productive activity which introduces substances foreign to the natural environment runs a considerable risk of polluting it.

The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

We can never have enough of Nature.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

We are the environment.

Strip the hills, drain the boglands, and you create flood conditions inevitably. Yet that is what we have been doing for years.

I've been a longtime supporter of all sorts of environmental groups.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

We need the tonic of wildness.

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

You completely rediscovered & relived everything to do with wildlife.

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

Nature does not pile up 1000 hogs, then hope for the best.

We can't just tack on environmental balance to a fundamentally imbalanced system.