Save Nature Quotes

• We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Fighting, Emotional

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

  William Ruckelshaus

  Nature, Lunch, Pollution Control

  Business Week, June 18, 1990.

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• We are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature. And to betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us.

  Prince Ea

  Betray

  "This Video Will Turn Even The Biggest Cynic Into A Tree-Hugger" by Kimberly Yam, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2015.

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  Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

  Thomas Fuller

  Ocean, Sea, Oil And Water

  "Gnomologia". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1732.

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• We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

  Chief Seattle

  Motivational, Wisdom, Peace

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• 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

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• The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Zoos, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Motivational, Nature, Animal

  "Paradigms Lost: Learning from Environmental Mistakes, Mishaps and Misdeeds" by Daniel A. Vallero, (p. 367), 2005.

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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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• We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Earth, Environment

  "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.

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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 think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?

  Robert Redford

  Nature, Thinking, Earth Day

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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Changing Environment, Conservation

  1620 Novum Organum, bk.1, aphorism129.

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• Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.

  Lord Acton

  Nature, Moving, Science

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• Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

  Dennis Gabor

  Men, Earth Day, Conservation

  1964 Inventing the Future.

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• When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

  John Muir

  Inspirational, Peace, Nature

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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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• God cannot save them from fools.

  John Muir

  Tree, Avalanches, Fool

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  It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

  Ansel Adams

  Nature, Fighting, Government

  "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.

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• And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because Man could then take his automobile and buy all his food in one place and He could save that which was good to eat in the refrigerator and throw away that which had no further use. And soon the earth was covered with plastic bags and aluminum cans and paper plates and disposable bottles and there was nowhere to sit down or walk, and Man shook his head and cried: "Look at this Godawful mess.

  Art Buchwald

  Nature, Men, Aluminum Cans

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• Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Dark, Thinking

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Motivation, Ocean

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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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