Please visit The Quote Garden for thought-provoking quotations on a wide array of subject matter.
- These are selected from "Environment" and "Nature"
- On the Trees! page you will find favorites in that category.
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. ~ Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. ~ Marshall McLuhan, 1964
I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~ Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990
I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend? ~ Robert Redford, Yosemite National Park dedication, 1985
When you defile the pleasant streams
And the wild bird's abiding place,
You massacre a million dreams
And cast your spittle in God's face.
~ John Drinkwater
Take care of the earth and she will take care of you. ~ Author Unknown
Opie, you haven't finished your milk. We can't put it back in the cow, you know. ~ Aunt Bee Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. ~ Ross Perot
Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. ~ Richard Bach
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. ~ Ansel Adams
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, 1855
When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ~ John Muir
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in. ~ George Washington Carver
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. ~ William Shakespeare