Quotes on Green Living

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.

What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.