Quotes on Destroying The Environment

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.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.

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.

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