Environmental Quotes - Page 2

• Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Issues, Alarms, Sound

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey/ The Clean Room". Documentary, 2014.

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Peace, Heart

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• No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  Garrett Hardin

  Mean, Able, Wilderness

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.

  Norm Dicks

  Tools, Decline, Endangered Species Act

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

  Ralph Nader

  Fun, Green World, Oil

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiring, Peace

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.79, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Insperational

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

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• One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171

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• Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  John Muir

  Nature, Heart, I Hate You

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• Global markets must be balanced by global values such as respect for human rights and international law, democracy, security and sustainable economic and environmental development.

  Anna Lindh

  Rights, Law, Democracy

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  The greatest danger to our future is apathy.

  Jane Goodall

  Inspirational, Peace, Grace

  "The Power of One" by Jane Goodall, content.time.com. August 26, 2002.

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

  Richard Rogers

  Way Forward, Environmental Quality, Earth Day

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  Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.

  John Muir

  Travel, Home, Tired

  "Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays".

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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• When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Animal, Men

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Paul Landacre (2005). “The Great Chain of Life”, p.148, University of Iowa Press

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• There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

  David R. Brower

  Garbage, Stores, Worn

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• If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Nature, Joy, Cooking

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1969). “The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch”

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  Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,
  For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.
  America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,
  And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.

  George Carlin

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  "Class Clown". Comedy album by George Carlin, 1972.

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• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Squirrels, Earth Day

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• Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

  Paul Tsongas

  Children, Commitment, Journey

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• Today when the public thinks of the products of science it is likely to think about environmental problems, an unproductive armament industry, careless or dishonest 'scientific' reports, Livermore cheers for 'nukes forever' and a huge amount of self-serving noise on every subject from global warming to 'the face of God'.

  Leo Kadanoff

  Cheer, Science, Thinking

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• Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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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