Quotes on Destroyed Nature

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Let us leave a splendid legacy for our children...let us turn to them and say, this you inherit: guard it well, for it is far more precious than money...and once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price