Mahatma Gandhi Quotes About Environment

• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

• What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Nature, Reflection

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

• God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Environmental, India, World

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “My Picture of Free India”

• Live simply that others might simply live.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Simplicity, Community

• It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Would Be, Taste

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works”

• Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Principles, Environment, Operations

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.80, A&C Black

• The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  West, Violence, Environment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.258, Rajpal & Sons

• The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Jesus, Messages, Environment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”

• Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Teamwork, Men, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.165, Vintage

• Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Children, Play, Evil

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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