Natural Environment Quotes - Page 8

• Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.

  Hans Hofmann

  Nature, Creative, Mind

  "Hans Hofmann". Book by Cynthia Goodman, p. 103, 1986.

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• The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

  Starhawk

  Nature, Healing, Environment

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• Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly

  Edward Davey

  Nature, Hands, Survival

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• Let the clean air blow the cobwebs from your body. Air is medicine.

  Lillian Russell

  Nature, Science, Blow

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• If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse

  David Attenborough

  Nature, Animal, Ecosystems

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• We have lost sight of the dependence we have on nature in economics

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Sight, Environment

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• Nature is our biggest ally in poverty reduction and achieving human welfare

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Poverty Reduction, Allies

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• Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

  Amory Lovins

  Nature, Otters, Crow

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• An agricultural landscape produces food but it also provides water, requires biodiversity to underpin soil function, pollination and other useful services, and also has value to society in terms of aesthetics and recreation

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Water, Landscape

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• Rather than think about fields producing food, and the rest of the land producing everything else, we need to think about managing integrated, multifunctional, landscapes

  Tim Benton

  Nature, Thinking, Land

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• From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Chinese, Bees

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• I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

  William Hazlitt

  Nature, Doors, Rooms

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1206, Delphi Classics

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• By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

  Monty Don

  Nature, Environment, Starting

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• Nature did all things well

  Michelangelo

  Nature, Environment, Wells

  Michelangelo Buonarroti (1960). “The Complete Poems of Michelangelo”

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• If we once, and for so long, lived in balance with nature and each other, we should be able to do so again.

  John Zerzan

  Nature, Long, Balance

  "Take My Advice : Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two". Book edited by James L. Harmon, 2007.

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• The spirit of a country, if it is to be true to itself, needs continually to draw great breaths of inspiration from the simple realities of the country; from the smell of its soil, the pattern of its fields, the beauty of its scenery and from the men and women who dwell and toil in the rural areas

  George Stapledon

  Country, Nature, Inspiration

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• The world's forests are a shared stolen treasure that we must put back for our children's future

  Desmond Tutu

  Nature, Children, World

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• One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

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• Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

  Samuel Butler

  Inspiring, Nature, Flower

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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• Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

  Vandana Shiva

  Nature, Diversity, Brotherhood

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• Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.

  Norman Cousins

  Differences, Serenity, Silence

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• Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Sweet, Nature, Autumn

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• Nature is just enough; but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

  Antoinette Brown Blackwell

  Nature, Acceptance, Men

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• From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP

  Tony Juniper

  Nature, Army, Gdp

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• Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia. What we seek is more simply to improve the quality of human life while at the same time respecting the natural environment which sustains it: 'Not a heaven on earth but a better earth on earth.' This is not at all a timid agenda, far from it. The work ahead of us is enormous!

  Paul Wellstone

  Perfect, Political, Heaven

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