Quotes on Environment

Faced with the widespread destruction of the environment, people everywhere are coming to understand that we cannot continue to use the goods of the earth as we have in the past ... [A] new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows...and has always known...that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.

Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

Observations always involve theory.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

He who knows he has enough is rich.

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

We can never have enough of Nature.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.

Nature as a whole is a progressive realization of purpose strictly comparable to the realization of purpose in any single plant or animal.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.