Quotes on Nature And Environment

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

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

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?

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

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

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.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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.

Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.

The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

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.

How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains!

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, _x000D_ For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. _x000D_ America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, _x000D_ And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.