. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs
Where the earth is, we are.
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.
Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.
The famous balance of nature is the most extraordinary of all cybernetic systems. Left to itself, it is always self-regulated.
The Truly Healthy environment is not merely safe but stimulating.
The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved.
It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand.
Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.
Water is H2O, hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is.
We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children
Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us.
Going to the mountains is going home.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: