Natural Environment Quotes - Page 9

• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.

  Wangari Maathai

  Nature, Talking, Water

  Wangari Maathai's speech at Goldman Awards in San Francisco, April 24, 2006.

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• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  Wangari Maathai

  Nature, Powerful, Government

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• Land really is the best art.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Nature, Land

  Andy Warhol (2015). “America”, p.169, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

  E. O. Wilson

  Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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• A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

  John Keats

  Happiness, Beauty, Nature

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

  Diane Setterfield

  Silence, Needs, Stories

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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• Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Art, Nature, Flower

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• The true miracle is not walking on water or walking in air, but simply walking on this earth.

  Nhat Hanh

  Nature, Air, Water

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• In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth.

  Rachel Carson

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Rachel Carson (2011). “Lost Woods: The Discovered Writing of Rachel Carson”, p.114, Beacon Press

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• Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues

  Jim Hightower

  Nature, Agriculture, Pesticides

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• Sooner or later,
  wittingly or unwittingly,
  we must pay
  for every intrusion
  on the natural environment.

  Barry Commoner

  Pay, Environment, Natural

  barry commoner (1966). “science and survival”

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• The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives them a sense of pride in their own civilization because of the prestige that science fhas in the present day world. It is furthermore a testament to the way Islam was able to cultivate various sciences extensively without becoming alienated from the Islamic world view and without creating a science whose application would destroy the world of nature and the harmony that must exist between man and the natural environment.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Islamic, Pride, Men

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• Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Spiritual, Expression, Civilization

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• Water - the ocean - is our most natural environment.
  We are born naked from the miniature ocean of the mother's womb.

  Jacques Mayol

  Mother, Ocean, Water

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• Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Love, Art, Nature

  Vincent van Gogh (1959). “Complete Letters: With Reproductions of All the Drawings in the Correspondence”

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