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Quotes About Protection

Forests are the lungs of our land.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
A tree is a wonderful living organism which gives shelter, food, warmth and protection to all living things. It even gives shade to those who wield an axe to cut it down
~ Gautama Buddha
Up above, we will defend the life of the trees and the mountains from further devastation. Down below [in the towns], we will spread death and mercy.
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
~ Jay Inslee
Corporate polluters, their phony think tanks and political toadies like to marginalize environmentalists as tree huggers, or radicals. But there is nothing radical about clean air or water.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
~ Dr. Seuss
Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!
~ Billy Connolly
If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?
~ Douglas Coupland
Nothing can grow under big trees.
~ Constantin Brancusi
You should issue demerits for tree cutting or the destruction of humus.
~ Donella Meadows
Willow trees are kind, Dear God. They will not bear a body on their limbs.
~ Alice Dunbar Nelson
I speak for the trees!
~ Dr. Seuss
Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts.
~ Benjamin Franklin
The condom has saved so many lives and it'll save so many more lives. We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree.
~ Mechai Viravaidya
Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.
~ Julia Hill
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
~ Virgil
The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Birds needs trees and mankind needs both of them! Protecting the nature and environment is not only a matter of ethics but also a matter of existence.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every tree is an angel!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree he had propped them up against, and closed his own eyes.
~ Robin McKinley
I wrapped my arms around him like I was saving an oak tree.
~ C.J. English, Affairytale
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.
~ George P. Morris
My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.
~ Billy Graham