Quotes on Nature And Environment

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.

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 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.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.

Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

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.

The best friend of earth of man is the tree.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

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.