Environment Quotes - Page 11

• The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Nature, Science, Land

  Letter to all State Governors on a Uniform Soil Conservation Law, February 26, 1937.

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• There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Inspirational, Dance, Learning

  Warren G. Bennis, Patricia Ward Biederman (1997). “Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration”, p.77, Basic Books

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• To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Garden, Earth Day

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  People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Permission to Play: Taking Time to Renew Your Smile". Book by Jill Murphy Long, 2003.

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• You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positive, Uplifting, Choices

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reality, Views, Perception

  "Power, Freedom, and Grace". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2006.

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• If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. 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.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Love, Hurt, Kindness

  "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Imagination, Stills

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Atheist, Life And Love

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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• For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident appendix (1986)

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• Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Success, Motivational Sports

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

  Margaret Fuller

  Nature, Rivers, Exception To The Rule

  Margaret Fuller, Margaret F. Ossoli (2008). “Woman in the Ninteenth Century (EasyRead Large Edition)”, p.122, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.

  David Gerrold

  Mean Girls, Law, Understanding

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• Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Loss, Survival

  Germaine Greer (1985). “Sex and destiny: the politics of human fertility”

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• Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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• I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Natural, Resources, Interest

  Theodore Roosevelt (1913). “Progressive Principles: Selections from Addresses Made During the Presidential Campaign of 1912”

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• Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.

  Anton Chekhov

  Men, Land, Wild Life

  'Uncle Vanya' (1897) act 1

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• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Rivers, Air

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One tragic example of the loss of forests and then water is found in Ethiopia. The amount of its forested land has decreased from 40 to 1 percent in the last four decades. Concurrently, the amount of rainfall has declined to the point where the country is rapidly becoming a wasteland.

  Al Gore

  Country, Loss, Science

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.107, Routledge

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  You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.

  Vernon Howard

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.10, Modern Library

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• If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, People, Environmental

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• If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Inspirational, Adversity, Caring

  LUCY LARCOM (1869). “POEMS”, p.186

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