Natural Environment Quotes - Page 4

• The conservation of nature, the proper care for the human environment and a general concern for the long-term future of the whole of our planet are absolutely vital if future generations are to have a chance to enjoy their existence on this earth.

  Prince Philip

  Nature, Long, Generations

  Speech at the Australian Conservation Foundation, Canberra, in April 1970. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every individual have a role to play in changing entrenched outlooks and ending destructive patterns of behaviour

  Kofi Annan

  Nature, Jobs, Government

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• The first law of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts

  Aldo Leopold

  Funny, Nature, Science

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• Wildlife of the world is disappearing, not because of a malicious and deliberate policy of slaughter and extermination, but simply because of a general and widespread ignorance and neglect.

  Prince Philip

  Nature, Ignorance, World

  Speech at World Wildlife Fund Dinner, York, 1969. "The Environmental Revolution: Speeches on Conservation, 1962-77", 1978.

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• To care for the natural world is the most effective insurance policy we can have

  Phil Harding

  Nature, World, Care

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• How oft a summer shower has started me; to seek the shelter of a hollow tree

  John Clare

  Summer, Nature, Tree

  John Clare, Tom Pohrt, Robert Hass (2012). “Careless Rambles: A Selection of His Poems”, p.31, Counterpoint Press

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• The British countryside is threatened by people and interests who really do not care for it

  Simon Jenkins

  Nature, People, Care

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• Our relationship with Nature... best way of forging this relationship... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth

  Satish Kumar

  Nature, Tourists, Earth

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• I see trees of green, red roses too. I see them bloom for me and you. And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white. The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night. And I think to myself what a wonderful world

  Louis Armstrong

  Nature, Blessed, Dark

  Song: What A Wonderful World

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• No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Nature, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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• We depend on the gifts of nature, but these gifts must be received with gratitude and not exploited or abused

  Satish Kumar

  Gratitude, Nature, Environment

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• When you defile the pleasant streams,
  And the wild bird's abiding place,
  You massacre a million dreams,
  And cast your spittle in God's face

  John Drinkwater

  Dream, Nature, Bird

  John Drinkwater (1919). “Poems, 1908-1919”

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• Trees are your best antiques

  Alexander Smith

  Nature, Tree, Antiques

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.257

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• But while nature has considerable resilience, there is a limit to how far that resilience can be stretched. No one knows how close to the limit we are getting. The darker it gets, the faster we're driving

  Douglas Adams

  Nature, Resilience, Limits

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• The environment is not as 'cheap as chips', it's priceless and we all have a part to play in protecting it

  David Dickinson

  Nature, Play, Priceless

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• The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Essence, Mountain, Environment

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• Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

  E. F. Schumacher

  Nature, Men, Battle

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness - and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there's no problem

  William McDonough

  Nature, Fall, Effectiveness

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• We Floridians have always assumed an arrogant mastery over our natural environment. And we have always presumed ourselves capable of obliging the water that is all around us to behave itself.

  Ronald Cunningham

  Water, Mastery, Arrogant

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• The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country’s dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia’s art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.

  Quentin Bryce

  Country, Art, Writing

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• Humankind has no option but to protect and live in harmony with its natural environment. However, it would be regrettable if in putting an end to revolutionary extremism, we should then come to environmental extremism. We should not forget that all extremes are the same.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Environmental, Would Be, Revolutionary

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• ...our societies appear to be intent on immediate consumption rather than on investment for the future. We are piling up enormous debts and exploiting the natural environment in a manner which suggests that we have no real sense of any worthwhile future. Just as a society which believes in the future saves in the present in order to invest in the future, so a society without belief spends everything now and piles up debts for future generations to settle. "Spend now and someone else will pay later."

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Real, Believe, Future

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• Doing work which has to be done over and over again helps us recognize the natural cycles of growth and decay, of birth and death, and thus become aware of the dynamic order of the universe. "Ordinary" work, as the root meaning of the term indicates, is work that is in harmony with the order we perceive in the natural environment.

  Fritjof Capra

  Order, Roots, Growth

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• In terms of making TV drama, not everything has to make sense. In cinema, you usually strive for reality and a natural environment, but in TV, it's more acceptable to do something crazy and break with naturalism.

  Takashi Miike

  Crazy, Drama, Reality

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I am amused when goody-goodies proclaim, from the safety of their armchairs, that children are naturally prejudice-free, that they only learn to "hate" from listening to bigoted adults. Nonsense. Tolerance is a learned trait, like riding a bike or playing the piano. Those of us who actually live among children, who see them in their natural environment, know the truth: Left to their own devices, children will gang up on and abuse anyone who is even slightly different from the norm.

  Josh Lieb

  Children, Hate, Piano

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