Quotes on Conserving Environment

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.