Quotes on Save The Environment

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.

Forests are the lungs of our land.

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

Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

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 only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

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

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use.

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.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

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.

You go into a community and they will vote 80 percent to 20 percent in favor of a tougher Clean Air Act, but if you ask them to devote 20 minutes a year to having their car emissions inspected, they will vote 80 to 20 against it. We are a long way in this country from taking individual responsibility for the environmental problem.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.