Quotes on Our Environment

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?

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.

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

The belief in a political Utopia is especially dangerous. This is possibly connected with the fact that the search for a better world, like the investigation of our environment, is (if I am correct) one of the oldest and most important of all the instincts.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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.

We must alert and organise the world's people to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our environmental crises - exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of irreplaceable resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every environmental problem we face today.

I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the world community. This is our duty to those who share this world with us and to those who follow us: Wherever we see a threat to our environment we must take action

It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment.

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.

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

We have modified our environment so radically that we must now modify ourselves to exist in this new environment.