Environment Quotes - Page 13

• Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter the nature of the world.

  Rachel Carson

  Change, Nature, Men

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Gil Scott-Heron

  Nature, Men, Lakes

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• When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Rain, Rivers, Water

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.53, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyond belief. Or stupid. A nation of amnesiacs, proceeding as if there were no other day but today. Assuming the land could also forget what had been done to it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Stupid, Thinking, Land

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• Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .

  Wallace Stegner

  Zoos, Dirty, Book

  Wallace Earle Stegner (2007). “The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner”, Counterpoint

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• The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

  Ayn Rand

  Change, Future, Animal

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• To be whole. To be complete. Wildness reminds us what it means to be human, what we are connected to rather than what we are separate from.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Nature, Mean, Science

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.75, Vintage

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• What we do flows from who we are.

  Charles Colson

  Inspirational, Environmental, Who We Are

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

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Nature, Sunset

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• Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Science, Oxygen, Two

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics

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• In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

  Charles Darwin

  Change, Strength, Struggle

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• Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

  Fujio Cho

  Nature, Science, Car

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• OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Fun, Inspiration, Government

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

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• When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Saving The Earth, Mother Earth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson, Waldo Emerson Forbes (1913). “Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1820-1872 [1876] Ed”

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• I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Running, Nature, Hydrogen Fuel

  "Uncommon Friends : Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh". Book by James Newton, 1987.

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• We share the earth not only with our fellow human beings, but with all the other creatures.

  Dalai Lama

  Nature, Travel, Environmental

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  God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Nature, Sea, Tree

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.373, The Mountaineers Books

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• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

  John Muir

  Nature, Flower, Adventure

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.427, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.

  William H. Stewart

  Health, Science, Safe Environment

  Environmental Science and Technology, February 1968.

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• The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.

  Al Gore

  Paris, Attention, Planets

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• The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers - and thermonuclear weapons.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Dinosaurs, Weapons, Changing Environment

  "The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke (Foreword)". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 2000.

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