Environment Quotes
116 Environment Quotes
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The problem isn’t a shortage of fuel, it’s a surplus of government.
Ronald Reagan
The forest is the poor man’s overcoat.
New England Proverb
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Chinese Proverb
The global environmental crisis we now face can be summarized in a single phrase: There are too many humans doing too many things stupidly.
David Wann
To understand the source of one’s next meal is to understand one’s own political vulnerability.
Michael Kramer
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural must be good. Strychnine is natural.
Isaac Asimov
The greatest pollution we have is the government itself.
Anonymous
This is not a matter of Chicken Little telling us the sky is falling. The scientific evidence is telling us we have a problem, a serious problem.
John Chaffee
The requirement to maintain species richness sets the most stringent limits on many forms of land use.
Gordon H Orians
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir
Strictly speaking, living above subsistence level is doing avoidable harm to the planet and to traditional peoples.
Stephanie Mills
Men argue, nature acts.
Voltaire
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way.
Aristotle
That’s what mining is all about-writing finis to finite resources.
Stephanie Mills
Live simply so others may simply live.
Bumper sticker
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
Henry David Thoreau
Nature is not a temple but a workshop in which man is the labourer.
Ivan Turgenev
Have we not made
The earth as a wide
Expanse …
And the mountains as pegs?
Koran
The materials of wealth are in the earth, in the seas, and in their natural and unaided productions.
Daniel Webster
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss
In the eyes of Nature we are just another species in trouble.
Lionel Tiger and Robin Fox
Live in accordance with nature.
Greek (Stoic) Maxim
Who plans the planners?
Juvenal
We are wise because we follow nature as the best of guides, and obey her as a goddess.
Cicero
The land was ours before…we were her people.
Robert Frost
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
The first proof of global warming may well come from the bleaching of the fragile and highly sensitive coral reef system.
Ernest H Williams
Mountains are earth’s undecaying monuments.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
All things come from earth, and to earth they all return.
Menander
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions; oft the teeming earth
Is with a kind of colic pinch’d and vex’d
By the imprisoning of unruly wind
Within her womb; wich, for enlargement striving,
Shakes the old beldame earth and topples down
Steeples and moss-grown towers.
William Shakespeare
He who has known how to love the land has loved eternity.
Stefan Zeromski
Let us give Nature a chance; she knows hr business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
If you plan for a year, plant rice. If you plan for ten years, plant trees. If you plan for 100 years, educate your children.
Chinese proverb
The revolution is green only because it is being viewed through green-colored glasses.
William C Paddock
May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.
Virgil
As a historian, you have to be conscious of the fact that every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.
Henry A Kissinger
We have met the enemy, and it is us.
Walt Kelly
Mankind has an incestuous relationship with Mother Earth.
Anonymous Graffito
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Barbara Ward
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