Environmental Quotes - Page 10

• You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of your grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.

  Chief Seattle

  Mother, Respect, Children

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• Sacred spaces can be created in any environment.

  Christy Turlington

  Inspirational, Space, Design

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• Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Development, Patterns

  Marshall McLuhan, Quentin Fiore, Jerome Agel (1996). “The medium is the massage: an inventory of effects”, Hardwired

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• 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.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Country, Responsibility, Air

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• We have ignored this cancer for so long that the romance of environmental concern is already fading in the shadow of the grim realities of lakes, rivers and bays where all forms of life have been smothered by untreated wastes, and oceans which no longer provide us with food.

  Edmund Muskie

  Cancer, Ocean, Reality

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

  Rachel Carson

  Strength, Beauty, Nature

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

  David Attenborough

  Beauty, Nature, Earth Day

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• The earth is what we all have in common.

  Wendell Berry

  Nature, Earth Day, Green Trees

  Wendell Berry (2015). “The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture”, p.97, Counterpoint

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• What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

  Hal Boyle

  Memorable, Rivers, People

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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  Lillian Russell

  Nature, Science, Blow

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• The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.

  Jared Diamond

  Easter, Ocean, Islands

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• The oceans deserve our respect and care, but you have to know something before you can care about it.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Sea, Knowing

  Twitter post from Oct 28, 2017

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• At first I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rain forest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity

  Chico Mendes

  Rain, Fighting, Tree

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• I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

  John Burroughs

  Music, Nature, Health

  John Burroughs (1912). “Time and change”

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• 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.

  Mother Teresa

  People, Use, Waste

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• The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Nature, Children, Accountability

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• When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can't eat money.

  Alanis Obomsawin

  Money, Nature, Food

  "Who is the Chairman of This Meeting? : A Collection of Essays". Book by Ralph Osborne (p. 43), "Conversations with North American Indians" by Ted Poole, 1972.

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• I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

  Brian Mulroney

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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• Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

  George Washington Carver

  Nature, Book, Fall

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• Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings is like sailing a yacht; you modify and manipulate its form and skin according to seasonal conditions and natural elements, and work with these to maximize the performance of the building.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Nature, Keys, Sailing

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• In the midst of global crises such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may be too easily dismissed as a 'soft' issue, or a luxury to be addressed after the urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragile.

  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness, War, Adversity

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, World

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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• Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished.

  Rachel Carson

  Rivers, Causes, Conservation

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• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Nature, World

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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