Quotes on Environmental

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.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

The trees reflected in the river - they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we.

The future belongs to those who understand that doing more with less is compassionate, prosperous, and enduring, and thus more intelligent, even competitive.

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

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.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it.

Water is the one substance from which the earth can conceal nothing; it sucks out its innermost secrets and brings them to our very lips.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.