Environment Quotes - Page 10

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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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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

  Rene Dubos

  Science, Men, Decision

  Barbara Ward, René Jules Dubos (1972). “Only One Earth: The Care and Maintenance of a Small Planet: an Unofficial Report Commissioned by the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment”, Penguin Books

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• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  "Inner Journey". Book by Ratna Joshi (p. 99), January 14, 2010.

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• Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.

  Joyce Brothers

  Love, Marriage, Spiritual

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• Those who love and free nature are never alone.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Environmental

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.

  Eric Knight

  Earth Day, Mountain, Environmental

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• The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around us should be made with the objective of preserving it for all generations to come.

  August Busch III

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

  Carl Andre

  Artist, Trying, Living Organisms

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  Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  George Eliot

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  "The New Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book compiled by Tryon Edwards et al., 1960.

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• 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, I Hate You

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• Parents should not smoke in order to discourage their kids from smoking. A child is more likely to smoke when they have been raised in the environment of a smoker.

  Christy Turlington

  Children, Kids, Parenting

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• Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

  Stewart Udall

  Nature, Men, Air

  Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”

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

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Nature, Earth, Conservation

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

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• If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  E. O. Wilson

  Science, Years, Environmental

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• Never mistake motion for action.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Positive, Witty, Mistake

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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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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• It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Environmental

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Time, Patriotic

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.

  Dalai Lama

  Responsibility, Compassion, People

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• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Color, Green World

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Atheist, Life And Love

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.28, Broadway Books

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• The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

  Havelock Ellis

  Stars, Moon, Long Ago

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