Explore Quotes on Environment

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

We all live downstream

Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

What we call 'economic growth' is in fact a growth in waste and a decline in the health of natural habitat

To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly

Study nature not books

As each tree falls so does the earth's ability to heal itself and to adapt to the effects of our changing climate

Trees are your best antiques

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast