Environmental Quotes - Page 12

• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Fundamentals, Dinosaurs, Littles

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works: Presidential addresses and state papers, Dec. 3, 1901, June 1910, and European addresses. 8 v”

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• Society is defined not only by what it creates, but by what it refuses to destroy.

  John C. Sawhill

  Climate Change, Refuse, Defined

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• True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.

  Seneca the Younger

  Nature, Law, True Wisdom

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• There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  History, Presidential, Delight

  Theodore Roosevelt, H. W. Brands (2001). “African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-naturalist”, p.21, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Your descendants shall gather your fruits.

  Virgil

  Nature, Philosophical, Fruit

  "Eclogues" by Virgil, Book IX, (Line 50), 37 BC.

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• The wealth of the nation is its air, water, soil, forests, minerals, rivers, lakes, oceans, scenic beauty, wildlife habitats and biodiversity... that's all there is. That's the whole economy. That's where all the economic activity and jobs come from. These biological systems are the sustaining wealth of the world.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Jobs, Ocean, Rivers

  Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.157, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.

  Mary Daly

  Science, Rivers, Looks

  Mary Daly (1973). “Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• If we use resources productively and take to heart the lessons learned from coping with the energy crisis, we face a future confronted only, as Pogo, once said, by insurmountable opportunities. The many crises facing us should be seen, then, not as threats, but as chances to remake the future so it serves all beings.

  Hunter Lovins

  Learning, Heart, Science

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• All nature wears one universal grin.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Science, Garden

  'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 1

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• In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

  John Muir

  Nature, May, Youth

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.234, e-artnow

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• Going to the mountains is going home.

  John Muir

  Home, Adventure, Hiking

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.721, Library of America

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• We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Success, Wisdom, Careers

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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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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• You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

  Wendell Berry

  Rivers, Affirmation, Plant

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• It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

  Rene Dubos

  Men, Earth Day, Quality

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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, Nuclear Reactors

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

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• We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

  Lewis Thomas

  Life, Gratitude, Earth Day

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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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• Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Nature, Laughter

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• The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or private persons, forasmuch as neither nature nor public use and custom permit any possession therof.

  Elizabeth I

  Nature, Ocean, Science

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• We already have the material means to eradicate deep poverty and thereby eradicate hunger. We have the material means to begin the tremendous clean up of the environmental messes we’ve created. We have, I believe, the psychological, emotional and spiritual means to create a world without war. We have the material means to create a world in which unnecessary human suffering has been drastically diminished. My vision for the future is that we do those things. And I think we will.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, War, Believe

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Rivers are highways that move on and bear us whither we wish to go.

  Blaise Pascal

  Moving, Rivers, Wish

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1859). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.241

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• You don't need it, but will you take some advice from a Californian who's been around for a while? Cherish these rivers. Witness for them. Enjoy their unimprovable purpose as you sense it, and let those rivers that you never visit comfort you with the assurance that they are there, doing wonderfully what they have always done.

  David R. Brower

  Rivers, Advice, Comfort

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• The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

  Russell Baker

  Society, Age, May

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