Environmental Quotes

The environment is everything that isn't me.
Albert Einstein

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Change, Doubt, Small

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, Away

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

God, Men, Cannot

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

God, Cannot, Fools

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.
John Muir

Everything, Find, Try

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

Government, Fight, Save

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret Mead

Society, Won, Destroy

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

God, Made, Mankind

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

Important, Put, Security

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Health, Become, Vegetarian

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir

Nature, Good, Alone

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Sitting Bull

Mother, Away, Her

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
Aeschylus

Good, Find, Water

Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.
Roger Tory Peterson

Trouble, Soon, Birds

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

Beauty, Food, End

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Aldo Leopold

Men, Between, State

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.
Maurice Strong

Words, After, Whole

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.
Paul Hawken

Change, Connected

You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
Jacob Bronowski

Life, Time, End

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
Wangari Maathai

Peace, Today, Human

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.
James Lovelock

Food, Times, Gave

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Luther Burbank

Love, Great, Humanity

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.
Robert Collier

Person, Blame, Themselves

We must return to nature and nature's god.
Luther Burbank

Nature, God, Return

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