Protect Nature Quotes

• Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Nature, Mean, Land

  Theodore Roosevelt, Paul H. Jeffers (1998). “The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations”, p.32, Taylor Trade Publications

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  We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.

  Aldo Leopold

  Inspiring, Respect, Nature

  A Sand County Almanac foreword (1949)

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• We protect nature not for nature's sake but for our own sake because it's the infrastructure of our communities.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Nature, Community, Sake

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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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• We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Selfish, Want, Environment

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• We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Survival, Environmental, Tipping

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• We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.

  Aldo Leopold

  Respect, Nature, Community Living

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Standing Bear

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Wise, Native American, Heart

  Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press

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• Conservation means development as much as it does protection.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Presidential, Development

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Selected Speeches and Writings of Theodore Roosevelt”, p.119, Vintage

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• The old Lakota was wise. He knew that a man's heart away from nature becomes hard.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Wise, Native American, Heart

  Luther Standing Bear (1978). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.197, U of Nebraska Press

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• That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

  Hugh Jackman

  Children, Order, Ideas

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• Fairies are angels who reside very close to the Earth so that they can perform their Divine mission of protecting nature and animals.

  Doreen Virtue

  Inspiring, Angel, Animal

  Twitter post from Nov 02, 2016

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• As humans try to evolve out of greed, let's put aside some wild places, protected lands, protected farms, things like that, since we may not evolve fast enough to protect nature.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Land, Wild Places, Greed

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's precarious balance, let alone the balance of our own human nature.

  Diane Ackerman

  Distance, Balance, Human Nature

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