Ecology Quotes

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
Ian McHarg

We are in trouble now, unless we deliberately take actions to take care of the sea, and make sure these systems continue to operate as they have for millions of years.
Sylvia Earle

Since natural resources are finite, increased consumption must inevitably lead to depletion and scarcity.
Paul Ehrlich

In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.

In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrick Bonhoeffer

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strengths that will endure as life lasts

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.
John Denver

Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!
Leonardo DiCaprio

I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
René Dubos

It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.
René Dubos

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.
Stewart Udall

We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do.
Barbara Ward

When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!
Dennis Weaver

Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.
Timothy Wirth

Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.







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