Ecology Quotes
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Thomas Fuller
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
Harrison Ford
I hope to be remembered as someone who made the earth a little more beautiful.
William O. Douglas
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.
Walt Whitman
Modern Society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyles.
Pope John Paul II
The purpose of conservation: The greatest good to the greatest number of people for the longest time.
Gifford Pinchot
Wildness can be a way of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part of the geography of hope.
Wallace Stenger
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in a black neighborhood.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
Aldo Leopold
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital."
Amory Lovins
The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The youth can make them see that our environment is deteriorating day by day.
Chief Oren Lyons
We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they are for in exclusively human terms. Without that which is wild, the world becomes a cell block.
Stephanie Mills
Basically we should stop doing those things that are destructive to the environment, other creatures, and ourselves and figure out new ways of existing.
Moby
