Quotes on World Environment

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

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.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

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

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

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

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.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

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

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

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

The environment is everything that isn't me.

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.

Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values. God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.