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  • Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

    Animal   Rhinos   Way  
  • We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

    "If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, 2013.
  • It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.

    Home   Heart   Gay  
    "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.
  • In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops.

    Paul Brooks (1971). “The pursuit of wilderness”
  • Fifteen years ago, if you said business will help save the environment people would have laughed at you. Today, I believe that is a serious proposition.

    "Tony Blair: 'A new coalition for the environment'" by Tony Blair, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2000.
  • We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.

    Attributed in A Dictionary of Environmental Quotations, ed. Barbara K. Rodes and Rice Odell (1992)
  • There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

    Life   Dog   Men  
  • It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

    "Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams". Interview with David Sheff, Playboy (p. 226), May 1, 1983.
  • Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • 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.

    Life   Ocean   Sea  
    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.9, Open Road Media
  • The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

    Dirty   Men   Rivers  
  • I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.

    Book   Reading   Wife  
  • The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

  • Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

    "Paul MacCready Interview: Toward A Rational Use of Energy". Interview With Richard Freudenberger, www.motherearthnews.com. September/October 1981.
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • Our children may save us if they are taught to care properly for the planet; but if not, it may be back to the Ice Age or the caves from where we first emerged. Then we'll have to view the universe above from a cold, dark place. No more jet skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons, or television. Come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea.

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

  • I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

  • The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

  • We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • 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?

  • 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.

    Science   Oxygen   Two  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6710, Delphi Classics
  • Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option...they will become a necessity.

    Nature   Science   Car  
  • I've gone where the hand of man has never set foot.

    Funny   Witty   Men  
  • 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.

  • They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

    "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.
  • The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

    "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.
  • Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

  • The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

    Stars   Moon   Long Ago  
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