Conserving Environment Quotes

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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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• Forests are the lungs of our land.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Land, Earth Day, Tree

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1935, Volume 4”, p.65, Best Books on

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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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• 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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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• The Senegalese conservationist Baba Dioum can summarize: "In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught."

  Ursula Goodenough

  Environmental, Understanding Love, End Of The World

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

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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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• There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

  Robert Orben

  Fun, Air, Earth Day

  "Waiting to Inhale: Don't Take a Breath Without the Report From Our Air Pollution Control District". The San Diego Union-Tribune, January 31, 2008.

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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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• Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Ocean, Air, Aquariums

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Summer, Peace

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• The best friend on earth of man is the tree: When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the earth.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Nature, Men, Garden

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• A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

  John James Audubon

  Nature, Children, Father

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• The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

  Al Gore

  Children, Real, Rain

  Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.16, Routledge

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• The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

  Ed Begley, Jr.

  Wind, Two, Energy

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• The good news is, we have everything we need now to respond to the challenge of global warming. We have all the technologies we need, more are being developed.... But we should not wait, we cannot wait, we must not wait.

  Al Gore

  Technology, Waiting, Challenges

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• The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Funny, Men

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  The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

  Marya Mannes

  Revenge, Abuse, Environmental

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

  Stephanie Mills

  Safe Environment, Earth Day, Environmental

  Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press

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• Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

  Tom Allen

  Independence, Foundation, Energy

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• He who knows what sweets and virtues are in the ground, the plants, the waters, the heavens, and how to come at these enchantments - is the rich and royal man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Garden, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.154, Graphic Arts Books

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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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