Ecology Quotes

The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.
Sandra Postel

conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

A nation that destroys it's soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

The throwing out of balance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the lives of men.

Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame.
Scott Russel Sanders

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
E.F. Schumacher

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth’s safety.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal.
J. Sterling Morton

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.
E.F. Schumacher

You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.

This is what you should do; love the Earth and sun and the animals...

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

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

The Supreme Reality of Our Time is...the Vulnerability of our Planet

When you use a manual push mower, you're "cutting" down on pollution and the only thing in danger of running out of gas is you!
Grey Livingston

Waste is a tax on the whole people.
Albert W. Atwood

Understanding the laws of nature does not mean that we are immune to their operations.
David Gerrold

Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
E. Knight







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