Ecology Quotes

When the soil disappears, the soul disappears.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.
Julian Huxley

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.
Gil Stern

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

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.
David Orr

A virgin forest is where the hand of man has never set foot.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.
Dennis Gabor

I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
Native American Proverb

After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours.
Janet Kauffman

Nature is not a place to visit, it is home.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Roosevelt, Franklin D

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers
Nader, Ralph

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Mead, Margaret

It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
Kennedy, John F.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
James, William

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

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.







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