Quotes on Natural Environment

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

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

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

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Environmental history was . . . born out of a moral purpose, with strong political commitments behind it, but also became, as it matured, a scholarly enterprise that had neither any simple, nor any single, moral or political agenda to promote. Its principal goal became one of deepening our understanding of how humans have been affected by their natural environment through time and, conversely, how they have affected that environment and with what results.

We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Land can be healthy or sick, fertile or barren, rich or poor, lovingly nurtured or bled white. Our present attitudes and laws governing the ownership and use of land represent an abuse of the concept of private property.... Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to experience mysteries transcending daily life and from which to recapture, in a Proustian kind of remembrance, the awareness of the cosmic forces that have shaped humankind.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

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

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.

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 preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour