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

    Business Week, June 18, 1990.
  • 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.
  • Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

    Nature   Men   Lakes  
  • 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.
  • 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  
  • Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

    Nature   Men   Society  
    Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”
  • 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.
  • The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

    Fun   Green World   Oil  
  • God cannot save them from fools.

    Tree   Avalanches   Fool  
  • Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble.

  • One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 3, sc. 3, l. 171
  • If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

  • The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

    Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”
  • By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

  • There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

    Lonely   Nature   Travel  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that.

    "Ellen DeGeneres: Nice Girls Finish First". Interview with David Hochman, www.goodhousekeeping.com. September 10, 2011.
  • Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.

    Nature   Men   Air  
    Stewart L. Udall (1968). “1976: Agenda for Tomorrow”
  • Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

    Nature   Men   Land  
    Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.145, Oxford University 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?

  • Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

    Learning   Air   Water  
    John Muir (2015). “STEEP TRAILS: California - Utah - Nevada - Washington - Oregon - The Grand Canyon: Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Essays and Wilderness Studies from the author of The Yosemite, Our National Parks, A Thousand-mile Walk to the Gulf & Picturesque California”, p.45, e-artnow
  • What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.

  • Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

  • I love not man the less, but Nature more.

    Nature   Men   Earth Day  
    'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178
  • And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

    Life   Running   Nature  
    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12
  • In the eternal youth of Nature, you may renew your own.

    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
  • God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.

    Simple   Men   Earth Life  
    Reader's Digest, July 1972.
  • You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

  • I have found that good taste, oddly enough, plays an important role in politics. Why is it like that? The most probable reason is that good taste is a visible manifestation of human sensibility toward the world, environment, people.

    Play   People   Important  
  • They kill good trees to put out bad newspapers.

    "Weinberger and the press: point, counterpoint" by Richard Halloran, www.nytimes.com. 1982.
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